Requirements Engineering: Laying a Firm Foundation [electronic resource] / by James A. Crowder, Curtis W. Hoff.

Introduction -- Section I: Requirements Engineering Fundamentals -- Background -- The Need for Requirements Engineering – Why? -- Requirements Engineering Processes – What? -- System Engineering and Requirements – How? -- Developer Derived Requirements -- New Development vice Existing System Extension/Upgrades -- System Tier(s) -- Section II: Requirements -- Engineering Mechanics -- MDSE Requirements Engineering -- Categories of Requirements -- Composition of a Requirement -- Use of Tables in Requirements -- Requirements Traceability -- Section III: Requirements Engineering Management -- Requirements Change Management -- Requirement Agility (Supporting Agile Development) -- Typical Requirement Anti-Patterns -- Section IV: Requirements Engineering and System of Systems -- Legacy Systems and Requirements Management -- Optimizing Performance across Systems -- SOA What? -- Final Thoughts on Requirements Management -- Conclusion.

This textbook lays the foundations for System-of-Systems Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management practices, principles, technique, and processes. It provides a comprehensive treatment of requirements engineering, an integral part of Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering. The book takes the student/reader though the entire process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and managing requirements, and then goes on the describe controlling and communicating requirement change throughout the system development lifecycle. The authors discuss the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes; describe the principal requirements engineering activities and their relationships; introduces techniques for requirements elicitation and analysis and describes requirements validation and the role of requirements reviews; and discusses the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes. A full suite of classroom material is provided including exercises, assignments, and PowerPoint slides. Describes the principal requirements engineering activities and their relationships; Introduces techniques for requirements elicitation, requirements validation, and the role of requirements reviews; Includes classroom materials such as exercises, assignments, and PowerPoint slides. .