REQUIREMENTS
ENGINEERING
A Good Practice Guide
Ian Sommerville
& Pete Sawyer
Requirements Engineering - general
This page contains links to other information of general relevance to requirements
engineering. These are primarily sources of information on research issues
and reports of practice and experience.
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Requirements Engineering Specialist
Group (RESG) of the British Computer Society. The RESG is a UK forum
for researchers, practitioners and students of Requirements Engineering
to exchange information and disseminate information. It does this through
seminars, workshops, training, etc. and also through Requirements Quarterly,
the RESG newsletter. The RESG site contains many useful links.
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Requirements engineering journal.
This is a new (in 1996) journal, published by Springer-Verlag, which is
devoted to disseminating research and practice in requirements engineering.
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Requirements bibliography.
This is a very large bibliography of published papers and books on requirements
engineering. It is maintained by Alan M. Davis, who's book, Software
Requirements: Objects, Functions and States (Prentice Hall 1993), is still a good introduction to requirements engineering.
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SE
web Requirements Engineering. This is an Australian site providing
general information about requirements engineering with associated material
on tools, key issues, training, links to other RE-related pages, etc. In
addition, a very lively e-mail newsgroup devoted to requirements engineering
is run from the site. There are typically several postings each day with
contributions from both academia and industrial practitioners. Instructions
on how to subscribe are provided in the web pages.
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RENOIR
is a "network of excellence" funded by the European Commission's Esprit
programme. Its objectives are to provide a framework for coordinated, joint
research related to industrial needs, to support the diffusion of RE research;
to provide RE research training and to support technology transfer in RE.
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Two IEEE-sponsored conference series, the International Symposium on
Requirements Engineering and the International Conference on Requirements
Engineering exist specifically for requirements engineering and cover
all aspects of RE. They have taken place on alternate years since 1993
and the proceedings are published by the IEEE
press.
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The US DoD Data Analysis Centre for Software
(DACS) maintains a useful set of resources on RE-related issues. Topics
include process improvement and formal specification. Resources include
technical reports and bibliographies.
Companies offering Requirements Engineering consultancy
This is by no means a comprehensive list of RE consultants. It is simply
a list of European consultancies who were partners in the REAIMS project.
They have all had an input to the Good Practice Guide as well as other
REAIMS products.
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Adelard, Coborn House, 3 Coborn
Road, London E3 2DA, UK Tel: +44 (0)181 983 1708, Fax: +44 (0)181 983 1845.
Adelard specialises in the assurance and development of safety related
computer-based systems.
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TÜV-IT,
RWTÜV Anlagentechnik GmbH Institute for Informationtechnology Im Teelbruch
122 D - 45219 Essen, Germany. TÜV-IT specialises in quality assurance
for software projects: assessment, process improvement, QA planning, performance
of reviews and tests, configuration management and document control.
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Apsys, Aéropole Bâtiment 1, 5, avenue Albert Durand, ZAC de
l'aéroport, 31700 Blagnac, France. Tel: +33 5 61 30 02 56, Fax +33
5 61 71 97 54. Apsys specialises in the use of systems and processes designed
to help organisations learn from experience.
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Digilog, 530, Rue F. Loliot, Pôle d'Activitiés des Milles,
B.P. 16000, 13791, Aix-en-Provence, Cedex 3, France. Tel: +33 4 42 39 93
19, Fax +33 4 42 24 38 06. Digilog specialises in the use of formal specification
and, in particular, in the use of the B
method.