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Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering

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Authors:
  1. Lawrence Chung

    1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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  2. Brian A. Nixon

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

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  3. Eric Yu

    1. Faculty of Information Science, University of Toronto, Canada

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  4. John Mylopoulos

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Series in Software Engineering (SOFT, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 1-9

  3. The NFR Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-13
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    2. The NFR Framework in Action

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 15-45

    3. Softgoal Interdependency Graphs

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 47-88

    4. Cataloguing Refinement Methods and Correlations

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 89-150

  4. Types of Non-Functional Requirements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Types of NFRs

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 153-160

    3. Accuracy Requirements

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 161-195

    4. Security Requirements

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 197-215

    5. Performance Requirements

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 217-248

    6. Performance Requirements For Information Systems

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 249-288

  5. Case Studies and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
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    2. Introduction to the Studies and Applications

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 291-300

    3. A Credit Card System

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 301-329

    4. An Administrative System

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 331-350

    5. Application to Software Architecture

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 351-366

    6. Enterprise Modelling and Business Process Redesign

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 367-382

    7. Assessment of Studies

      • Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric Yu, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 383-389

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 391-441
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Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic approach to `building quality into' software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality attributes, such as accuracy, performance, security and modifiability. However, such non-functional requirements (NFRs) are difficult to address in many projects, even though there are many techniques to meet functional requirements in order to provide desired functionality. This is particularly true since the NFRs for each system typically interact with each other, have a broad impact on the system and may be subjective. To enable developers to systematically deal with a system's diverse NFRs, this book presents the NFR Framework. Structured graphical facilities are offered for stating NFRs and managing them by refining and inter-relating NFRs, justifying decisions, and determining their impact. Since NFRs might not be absolutely achieved, they may simply be satisfied sufficiently (`satisficed'). To reflect this, NFRs are represented as `softgoals', whose interdependencies, such as tradeoffs and synergy, are captured in graphs. The impact of decisions is qualitatively propagated through the graph to determine how well a chosen target system satisfices its NFRs. Throughout development, developers direct the process, using their expertise while being aided by catalogues of knowledge about NFRs, development techniques and tradeoffs, which can all be explored, reused and customized.
Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering demonstrates the applicability of the NFR Framework to a variety of NFRs, domains, system characteristics and application areas. This will help readers apply the Framework to NFRs and domains of particular interest to them. Detailed treatments of particular NFRs - accuracy, security and performance requirements - along with treatments of NFRs for information systems are presented as specializations of the NFRFramework. Case studies of NFRs for a variety of information systems include credit card and administrative systems. The use of the Framework for particular application areas is illustrated for software architecture as well as enterprise modelling. Feedback from domain experts in industry and government provides an initial evaluation of the Framework and some case studies. Drawing on research results from several theses and refereed papers, this book's presentation, terminology and graphical notation have been integrated and illustrated with many figures.
Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering is an excellent resource for software engineering practitioners, researchers and students.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

    Lawrence Chung

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

    Brian A. Nixon, John Mylopoulos

  • Faculty of Information Science, University of Toronto, Canada

    Eric Yu

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