Developing Information Systems

Table of contents

1. FRONT COVER
2. BCS, THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
3. TITLE PAGE
4. COPYRIGHT PAGE
5. CONTENTS
6. LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
7. AUTHORS
8. FOREWORD
9. PREFACE
10. 1. INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. What is systems development
    3. Systems development and other disciplines
    4. Offshoring and outsourcing of systems development
    5. In the rest of this book
11. 2. LIFECYCLE TYPES AND THEIR RATIONALES
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction to system development lifecycles
    3. What we mean by ‘system development lifecycle’
    4. Lifecycles based on the linear approach
    5. Lifecycles based on the evolutionary approach
    6. The impact of Agile
    7. Hybrid approaches
    8. Development approaches and methods
    9. How to choose an approach
12. 3. ANALYSING THE BUSINESS NEED
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction
    3. Business analysis
    4. The place of business analysis in the business development lifecycle
    5. Outcomes from business analysis
    6. Conclusion
13. 4. MAKING A BUSINESS CASE
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. The purpose of a business case
    3. The business case and the development lifecycle
    4. Feasibility checking
    5. Elements of a business case
    6. Identifying, evaluating and selecting options
    7. Cost–benefit analysis
    8. Risk analysis
    9. Impact analysis
    10. Investment appraisal techniques
14. 5. REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Requirements engineering defined
    3. A framework for requirements engineering
    4. Roles in requirements engineering
    5. Requirements elicitation
    6. Business analysis techniques
    7. Requirements analysis
    8. Requirements validation
    9. Requirements documentation
    10. Requirements management
    11. Requirements engineering and Agile development
    12. Requirements engineering and off-the-shelf solutions
15. 6. PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Approaches to development
    3. Build or buy?
    4. Component-based development
    5. Development methodologies
    6. Software engineering paradigms
    7. The influence of technological advances
16. 7. SYSTEM MODELLING TECHNIQUES
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. What is modelling?
    3. Rationale for modelling
    4. Multiple models and views
    5. Pre-UML modelling technoques
    6. The unified modelling language (UML)
    7. Abstraction, levelling and scope
    8. Opaqueness of model elements
    9. Levels of models and model elements
    10. Cross-referencing models, facets, perspectives and traceability
    11. Documentation and specification within models
    12. Conclusion
17. 8. SYSTEMS DESIGN – 1
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Objective of systems design
    3. Constraints upon systems design
    4. Systems design in the development lifecycle
    5. The scope of design
    6. Process design
18. 9. SYSTEMS DESIGN – 2
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Data design
    3. Security and control design
    4. Logical and physical design
    5. Design patterns
19. 10. SOLUTION-RELATED ARCHITECTURES
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction
    3. Architecture patterns
    4. Communication and interoperation patterns
    5. Enterprise architecture
    6. Architecture principles
    7. Solution architecture
    8. Software architecture
    9. Stakeholders and roles in architecture
    10. Architecture management
20. 11. QUALITY AND TESTING
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction
    3. The quality triangle
    4. The definition of software quality
    5. The objectives and limitations of testing
    6. The static test stages of the ‘V’ model lifecycle
    7. The dynamic test stages of the ‘V’ model lifecycle
    8. Re-testing
    9. Regression testing
    10. Progression through the dynamic testing stages
    11. Testing in the lifecycle
    12. The test plan
21. 12. IMPLEMENTATION AND CHANGEOVER
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Implementation in the lifecycle
    3. Planning for implementation and changeover
    4. File and data conversion or creation
    5. The principles and problems of data mapping
    6. Planning, testing and performing data conversion
    7. Migration of software modules
    8. Installation of hardware and infrastructure
    9. Supporting documentation
    10. Training
    11. System implementation
    12. The implementation plan
22. 13. MAINTENANCE AND EVALUATION
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction
    3. Maintenance in the systems development lifecycle
    4. Maintenance categories
    5. Testing in the maintenance stage
    6. Evaluation
    7. The role and selection of metrics for evaluation
23. 14. SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
    1. Contents of this chapter
    2. Introduction
    3. Typical tools functions and benefits
    4. Tools through solution lifecycles
    5. Conclusion
24. GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
25. INDEX
26. BACK COVER