Covering the full spectrum of software requirements approaches, this book compares and contrasts both problem analysis techniques and notations as well as software requirements specification techniques and notations. It provides detailed comparisons of all the requirements engineering approaches--whether they emphasize objects, functions and dataflow, or behavior--including enough information about each so readers can use them immediately. An ideal reference for practicing requirements analysts and engineers, and requirements and specification writers.
Al Davis is a professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He was a member of the board of directors of Requisite, Inc., acquired by Rational Software Corporation in February 1997, and subsequently acquired by IBM in 2003. He has consulted for many corporations over the past thirty years, including Boeing, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, FrontRange Solutions, IBM, Loral, MCI, Software Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek, Sumitomo, and XAware. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc., VP of Engineering Services at BTG, Inc., a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems. He has held academic positions at George Mason U and temporary academic positions and/or Fulbrights at Atma Jaya U in Yogyakarta (Indonesia); U of Jos (Nigeria); U Politécnica de Madrid (Spain); U of Technology, Sydney (Australia); and U of the Western Cape (South Africa).
He has been a fellow of the IEEE since 1994, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the U Illinois in 1975. Find out more about him at www.reqbib.com/adavis.
