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Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook
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Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook

by Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass
March 2021
Beginner
646 pages
12h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2: System Specification

This chapter contains recipes related to capturing and analyzing requirements. The first four recipes are alternative ways to achieve essentially the same thing. Functional analysis generates high-quality requirements, use cases, and user stories, all of which are means to understand what the system must consist of.

By high-quality requirements, I mean requirements focused around a use case that are demonstrably the following:

  • Complete
  • Accurate
  • Correct
  • Consistent
  • Verifiable

The problem with textual requirements is that natural language is ambiguous, imprecise, and only weakly verifiable. Keeping text human-readable is very useful, especially for non-technical stakeholders, but is insufficient to ensure we are ...

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