Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from
Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software
development method and practice. The book brings together some 75
short pieces about principles and techniques for requirements
analysis, specification and design.
The ideas discussed are deep, but at the same time lightly and
wittily expressed. The book is fun to read, rewarding the reader
with many valuble and novel insights. Some sacred cows, including
top-down development, dataflow diagrams and the distinction between
What and How, are led to the slaughter. Readers will be
provoked--perhaps to fury, perhaps to enthusiasm, but surely to
think more deeply about topics and issues of central importance in
the field of software development.
There are new ideas about problem structuring, based on the
concept of a problem frame, leading to a clearer notion of
complexity and how to deal with it. And other important topics
include:
- Principles for evaluating development methods
- New approaches to capturing and describing requirements and
specifications, based on the relationship between the software
system and the problem context
- The technology of desciption in software, including new ideas
such as designations, the separation of descriptive moods and the
scope and span of description
- Incisive information about the proper role of mathematics and
formalism.
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