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Software Requirements, 3rd Edition
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Software Requirements, 3rd Edition

by Karl Wiegers, Joy Beatty
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
25h 27m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 8. Understanding user requirements

The Chemical Tracking System (CTS) project was holding its first requirements elicitation workshop to learn what chemists would need to do with the system. The participants included a business analyst, Lori; the product champion for the chemists, Tim; two other chemist representatives, Sandy and Peter; and the lead developer, Ravi.

“Tim, Sandy, and Peter have identified 14 use cases that chemists would need to perform using the Chemical Tracking System,” Lori told the group. “You said the use case called ‘Request a Chemical’ is top priority and Tim already wrote a brief description for it, so let’s begin there. Tim, how do you visualize the process to request a chemical with the system?”

“First,” said Tim, ...

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