Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way

Chapter 1: The Requirements Domain

Now that we know what this book is about, we can begin our exploration of the requirements domain. A domain is an area of knowledge within which we can operate. As software professionals, we move between different domains daily: the coding domain, the testing domain, as well as client-specific domains such as banking, engineering, education, and so on. In every domain, we deal with specific domain entities that represent items of knowledge or interactions within the domain. In the coding domain, for instance, we deal with entities such as data structures, algorithms, functions, and so on. These entities reflect how we capture and utilize domain knowledge. The aim of this chapter is to introduce you to the requirements ...