Joao M. Fernandes – författare

This book focuses on various topics related to engineering and management of requirements, in particular elicitation, negotiation, prioritisation, and documentation (whether with natural languages or with graphical models). The book provides methods and techniques that help to characterise, in a systematic manner, the requirements of the intended engineering system. 

It was written with the goal of being adopted as the main text for courses on requirements engineering, or as a strong reference to the topics of requirements in courses with a broader scope. It can also be used in vocational courses, for professionals interested in the software and information systems domain.

Readers who have finished this book will be able to:

- establish and plan a requirements engineering process within the development of

complex engineering systems;

- define and identify the types of relevant requirements in engineering projects;

- choose and apply the most appropriate techniques to elicit the requirements of a

given system;

- conduct and manage negotiation and prioritisation processes for the requirements

of a given engineering system;

- document the requirements of the system under development, either in natural

language or with graphical and formal models.

Each chapter includes a set of exercises.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2015, held in Braga, Portugal, in June 2015. The theme of the event was "Enterprising Cities" focusing on a noticeable spillover of software within other industries enabling new business models: Companies bundle their physical products and software services into solutions and start to sell independent software products in addition to physical products.

The 16 full, five short, and three doctoral symposium papers accepted for ICSOB were selected from 42 submissions. The papers span a wide range of issues related to contemporary software business—from strategic aspects that include external reuse, ecosystem participation, and acquisitions to operational challenges associated with running software business.