Book description
Overlooked or poorly defined nonfunctional software requirements are widely recognized to be among the most expensive and difficult errors to correct after a softward system has been implemented. This book presents over 2,000 suggested questions to help master the elicitation of these hard-to-identify, yet vital, requirements. Its proven step-by-step techniques,…
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Most discussions about requirements focus on functionality, which is what the users most obviously observe in a software system. However, user satisfaction also depends heavily on nonfunctional requirements, such as various quality characteristics the system exhibits: usability, availability, reliability, security, scalability, maintainability, and others.
The Quest for Software Requirements is the only book that focuses on nonfunctional requirements. It provides many questions a business analyst could ask during requirements elicitation to understand the stakeholders’ expectations for those all-important quality attributes. That’s an often-neglected aspect of requirements exploration that frequently leads to deficiencies that can be expensive to correct later in…
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