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User-Centred Requirements Engineering

  • Textbook
  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Alistair Sutcliffe

    1. Centre for HCI Design, Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK

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  • PROVIDES PRAGMATIC ADVICE ON HOW TO CONDUCT REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING * DEALS WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLINGUISTIC THEORY THAT UNDERPIN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 1-18

  3. Understanding People

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 19-43

  4. RE Tasks and Processes

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 45-77

  5. Understanding Requirements Conversations

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 79-102

  6. Representing the Problem

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 103-125

  7. Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering (SCRAM)

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 127-147

  8. Requirements Analysis for Safety Critical Systems

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 149-180

  9. Future Directions

    • Alistair Sutcliffe
    Pages 181-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-215
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About this book

If you have picked up this book and are browsing the Preface, you may well be asking yourself"What makes this book different from the large number I can find on amazon. com?". Well, the answer is a blend of the academic and the practical, and views of the subject you won't get from anybody else: how psychology and linguistics influence the field of requirements engineering (RE). The title might seem to be a bit of a conundrum; after all, surely requirements come from people so all requirements should be user-centred. Sadly, that is not always so; many system disasters have been caused simply because requirements engineering was not user-centred or, worse still, was not practised at all. So this book is about putting the people back into com­ puting, although not simply from the HCI (human-computer interaction) sense; instead, the focus is on how to understand what people want and then build appropriate computer systems.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for HCI Design, Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK

    Alistair Sutcliffe

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