Requirements Engineering

This textbook provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of requirements engineering (RE). It presents approved techniques for eliciting, negotiating, and documenting as well as validating, and managing requirements for software-intensive systems. The various aspects of the process and the techniques are illustrated using numerous examples based on extensive teaching experience and industrial collaborations. The book is structured in five parts. Part I ¿Fundamentals and Framework¿ provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of RE, illustrates why it is a critical success factor for any software development project, and describes different ways of implementing it in an organization and its role in different software engineering process models. Part II ¿Requirements Engineering Context¿ explains the essential role and influence of the RE context on system requirements, defines basic terms,and introduces the conc