This document discusses requirements analysis and design. It covers the types and characteristics of requirements, as well as the tasks involved in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation, and management. It also discusses problems that commonly occur in requirements practices and solutions through proper requirements engineering. Additionally, it outlines goals and elements of analysis modeling, including flow-oriented, scenario-based, class-based, and behavioral modeling. Finally, it discusses the purpose and tasks of design engineering in translating requirements models into design models.
The document discusses software requirements and requirements engineering. It introduces concepts like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements document and the different types of stakeholders who read requirements. The document also discusses challenges in writing requirements precisely and provides examples of requirements specification for a library system called LIBSYS.
This document discusses requirements validation and techniques for validating requirements. It defines requirements validation as checking that requirements define the system the customer wants. Validation is important because fixing requirements errors later is very costly. The document describes various checks that can be performed on requirements like validity, consistency, completeness, and verifiability. It also outlines techniques for validation like requirements reviews, prototyping, and test-case generation. Finally, it notes that validating requirements is difficult and some problems may still be found after validation.
The document discusses software requirements and specifications. It explains that requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer requirements for a system. Requirements can range from high-level abstract statements to detailed functional specifications. Both types of statements may be called requirements. The document also discusses different types of requirements like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It provides examples and explanations of each. The structure and intended users of a requirements document are also covered.
Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requirement is a capability to which a project outcome (product or service) should conform.
In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software or system requirements.
Requirement engineering (RE) involves defining system requirements during the development process. It deals specifically with the definition phase, where system services and constraints are established. RE is important because 40-60% of software project defects are related to shortcomings in requirements gathering and documentation. An inadequate requirements process can lead to unacceptable products that do not meet user needs, project overruns due to requirement changes, and missing key requirements.
Software life cycle model: The descriptive and diagrammatic representation of the software life cycle
It represent all the activities performed on software product from the inception to retirement
It also depicts the order in which these activities are to be undertaken
More than one activity can be carried out in a single phase
The primary advantage of adhering to a life cycle model is that it encourages development of software in a systematic and disciplined manner
When a program is developed by a single programmer ,he has the freedom to decide the exact steps through which he will develop the program
Iterative Linear Sequential Model
Objectives:
1. To understand the different processes in the realm of ‘Requirements Engineering’.
2. To see the challenges in requirements development and the importance of getting requirements right in an IT project.
3. To understand the different techniques used in different phases and processes of requirements development and management.
The document discusses software requirements and requirements engineering. It introduces concepts like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements document and the different types of stakeholders who read requirements. The document also discusses challenges in writing requirements precisely and provides examples of requirements specification for a library system called LIBSYS.
This document discusses requirements validation and techniques for validating requirements. It defines requirements validation as checking that requirements define the system the customer wants. Validation is important because fixing requirements errors later is very costly. The document describes various checks that can be performed on requirements like validity, consistency, completeness, and verifiability. It also outlines techniques for validation like requirements reviews, prototyping, and test-case generation. Finally, it notes that validating requirements is difficult and some problems may still be found after validation.
The document discusses software requirements and specifications. It explains that requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer requirements for a system. Requirements can range from high-level abstract statements to detailed functional specifications. Both types of statements may be called requirements. The document also discusses different types of requirements like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It provides examples and explanations of each. The structure and intended users of a requirements document are also covered.
Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requirement is a capability to which a project outcome (product or service) should conform.
In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis encompasses those tasks that go into determining the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product or project, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software or system requirements.
Requirement engineering (RE) involves defining system requirements during the development process. It deals specifically with the definition phase, where system services and constraints are established. RE is important because 40-60% of software project defects are related to shortcomings in requirements gathering and documentation. An inadequate requirements process can lead to unacceptable products that do not meet user needs, project overruns due to requirement changes, and missing key requirements.
Software life cycle model: The descriptive and diagrammatic representation of the software life cycle
It represent all the activities performed on software product from the inception to retirement
It also depicts the order in which these activities are to be undertaken
More than one activity can be carried out in a single phase
The primary advantage of adhering to a life cycle model is that it encourages development of software in a systematic and disciplined manner
When a program is developed by a single programmer ,he has the freedom to decide the exact steps through which he will develop the program
Iterative Linear Sequential Model
Objectives:
1. To understand the different processes in the realm of ‘Requirements Engineering’.
2. To see the challenges in requirements development and the importance of getting requirements right in an IT project.
3. To understand the different techniques used in different phases and processes of requirements development and management.
The document discusses requirements analysis, which involves understanding customer needs and expectations for a proposed system. Requirements analysis is necessary to ensure projects align with business goals and specifications. The requirements analysis process includes identifying system boundaries, customers, eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, analyzing requirements, documenting requirements in a specification, and managing evolving requirements. An effective software requirements specification establishes agreement between customers and developers on system functionality.
The document discusses various aspects of the software process including software process models, generic process models like waterfall model and evolutionary development, process iteration, and system requirements specification. It provides details on each topic with definitions, characteristics, advantages and diagrams. The key steps in software process are specified as software specifications, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Generic process models and specific models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and incremental delivery are explained.
Software requirements engineering lecture 01Abdul Basit
This document discusses requirements engineering and its importance in software project success. It defines requirements engineering and outlines the key processes: elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and validation, and management. Case studies show that requirements engineering impacts several critical success factors, including user involvement, clear requirements, proper planning, and realistic expectations. When done thoroughly through multiple release cycles, requirements engineering can help deliver projects on time and on budget by ensuring the development team is building the right system to meet user needs.
User Interface Design in Software Engineering SE15koolkampus
The document discusses principles of user interface design including interaction styles, information presentation, user support, and evaluation. It covers topics such as direct manipulation, menu selection, command languages, using color and graphics effectively, designing helpful error messages and documentation, and evaluating interfaces against usability specifications. The goal is to provide user-centered interfaces that are logical, consistent, and help users recover from errors.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
The document discusses component-based software engineering and defines a software component. A component is a modular building block defined by interfaces that can be independently deployed. Components are standardized, independent, composable, deployable, and documented. They communicate through interfaces and are designed to achieve reusability. The document outlines characteristics of components and discusses different views of components, including object-oriented, conventional, and process-related views. It also covers topics like component-level design principles, packaging, cohesion, and coupling.
This document discusses techniques for gathering software requirements, including interviews, workshops, observations, questionnaires, and document analysis. It outlines direct and indirect data collection methods, and levels of requirements from business goals to use cases. Stakeholder involvement at each level is described. The iterative nature of requirements elicitation and management is emphasized. Effective elicitation requires understanding stakeholders, crafting questions, and documenting open issues for future refinement.
The document discusses key aspects of developing a software requirements specification (SRS) document. It notes that the SRS serves as a contract between developers and customers, detailing functional and non-functional requirements without specifying solutions. An effective SRS is unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, modifiable, traceable and usable for subsequent development and maintenance phases. The document provides examples of both good and bad SRS qualities.
This course covers software requirement engineering over 10 topics, including basics, processes, management, and tools. Students will be assessed through a final exam (60%), midterm (15%), and tutorials/presentations (25%). The course lab will provide hands-on experience with requirements tools and models. Requirements are conditions that must be met by a system, and define customer expectations, system boundaries, and quality attributes from different perspectives. Poor requirements can lead to imprecise, ambiguous, contradictory, changing, low quality requirements or missing requirements.
This document provides an overview of design patterns including their definition, utility, essential elements, and examples. It discusses creational patterns like singleton, factory, and builder. Structural patterns covered include adapter, proxy, and composite. Behavioral patterns like command and iterator are also introduced. The document is presented as a slideshow by Dr. Lilia Sfaxi on design patterns for software engineering.
Requirement analysis and specification, software engineeringRupesh Vaishnav
The document discusses the key tasks in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. It describes each task such as inception involves establishing a basic understanding of the problem and potential solutions through questioning stakeholders. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders through techniques like meetings. Specification can take the form of documents, models, scenarios or prototypes. The requirements specification is an important output and should have certain characteristics like being unambiguous and traceable.
The document discusses various software production process models, including traditional waterfall models, iterative models like the spiral model, and agile methodologies. Waterfall models involve sequential phases from requirements to maintenance but lack flexibility. Iterative models divide the process into increments with feedback between phases. Agile methods like Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Smart emphasize rapid, incremental delivery, automating processes, and customer involvement. The choice of model depends on factors like requirements volatility, team experience, and project priorities.
The document discusses requirements analysis for software engineering projects. It describes requirements analysis as bridging system requirements and software design by providing models of system information, functions, and behavior. The objectives of analysis are identified as identifying customer needs, evaluating feasibility, allocating functions, and establishing schedules and constraints. Common analysis techniques discussed include interviews, use cases, prototyping, and specification documentation.
This document discusses requirement elicitation techniques used in systems analysis and design. It describes requirement elicitation as identifying stakeholder needs through interviews, meetings, ethnography and other techniques. It outlines best practices for elicitation including preparing for interviews and meetings, using scenarios, questionnaires, and observation to understand user needs and ensure requirements are unambiguous, complete, verifiable and consistent. The goal of elicitation is to gather requirements that accurately reflect stakeholder needs.
The document discusses key aspects of software requirement engineering including requirement elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation. It describes the purpose of a Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document as a contract between developers and customers. Various techniques are covered for specifying requirements such as informal, semi-formal, and formal specifications. The document also outlines best practices for writing requirements and standards for SRS documents.
The document discusses various aspects of requirements engineering including processes, techniques, challenges, and importance. It describes requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Key points covered include feasibility studies, types of requirements, characteristics of good requirements, requirements traceability and evolution. Diagrams like use cases, activity diagrams and data flow diagrams are presented as examples of requirements specification outputs.
Requirement prioritization is used in Software product management for determining which candidate requirements of a software product should be included in a certain release. Requirements are also prioritized to minimize risk during development so that the most important or high risk requirements are implemented first. Several methods for assessing a prioritization of software requirements exist.
The document discusses software requirement specification and the requirement engineering process. It describes how requirements are elicited from stakeholders, analyzed for consistency and completeness, and specified in a requirements document. The key activities in requirements engineering include requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and management, which are iterative processes.
The document provides an overview of the key topics covered in Chapter 4 of the textbook "Software Engineering" related to requirements engineering. It discusses the objectives of requirements engineering, which are to discover and document software requirements through elicitation, analysis, and validation activities. It covers the differences between functional and non-functional requirements, common requirements engineering processes, and techniques for eliciting requirements such as interviews and ethnography. The document also provides examples of requirements for a mental healthcare management system.
1. Software development life cycle models break down the development process into distinct phases to manage complexity. Common models include waterfall, incremental, evolutionary (like prototyping and spiral), and component-based.
2. The waterfall model follows linear sequential phases from requirements to maintenance. Incremental models iterate through phases. Evolutionary models use prototypes to evolve requirements through customer feedback.
3. The spiral model is an evolutionary model representing phases as loops in a spiral, with risk assessment and reduction at each phase. It aims to minimize risk through iterative development and prototyping.
This document discusses requirement engineering and outlines its key tasks. It describes common problems with requirements practices like misunderstanding customer needs and lack of change control. The main tasks of requirements engineering are inception to understand the problem, elicitation using techniques like meetings and quality function deployment, and managing requirements throughout the project. The goal is to properly define what the customer wants to establish a strong foundation for software design and development.
This document discusses requirement engineering and outlines its key tasks. It describes common problems like misunderstanding customer needs and lack of change control. The tasks are inception to understand the problem, elicitation using techniques like meetings and quality function deployment, and requirements management throughout the project. Elicitation aims to identify all requirements through collaboration with stakeholders.
The document discusses requirements analysis, which involves understanding customer needs and expectations for a proposed system. Requirements analysis is necessary to ensure projects align with business goals and specifications. The requirements analysis process includes identifying system boundaries, customers, eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, analyzing requirements, documenting requirements in a specification, and managing evolving requirements. An effective software requirements specification establishes agreement between customers and developers on system functionality.
The document discusses various aspects of the software process including software process models, generic process models like waterfall model and evolutionary development, process iteration, and system requirements specification. It provides details on each topic with definitions, characteristics, advantages and diagrams. The key steps in software process are specified as software specifications, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Generic process models and specific models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and incremental delivery are explained.
Software requirements engineering lecture 01Abdul Basit
This document discusses requirements engineering and its importance in software project success. It defines requirements engineering and outlines the key processes: elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and validation, and management. Case studies show that requirements engineering impacts several critical success factors, including user involvement, clear requirements, proper planning, and realistic expectations. When done thoroughly through multiple release cycles, requirements engineering can help deliver projects on time and on budget by ensuring the development team is building the right system to meet user needs.
User Interface Design in Software Engineering SE15koolkampus
The document discusses principles of user interface design including interaction styles, information presentation, user support, and evaluation. It covers topics such as direct manipulation, menu selection, command languages, using color and graphics effectively, designing helpful error messages and documentation, and evaluating interfaces against usability specifications. The goal is to provide user-centered interfaces that are logical, consistent, and help users recover from errors.
This document discusses requirements modeling in software engineering. It covers creating various models during requirements analysis, including scenario-based models, data models, class-oriented models, flow-oriented models, and behavioral models. These models form the requirements model, which is the first technical representation of a system. The document provides examples of writing use cases and constructing a preliminary use case diagram for a home security system called SafeHome. It emphasizes that requirements modeling lays the foundation for software specification and design.
The document discusses component-based software engineering and defines a software component. A component is a modular building block defined by interfaces that can be independently deployed. Components are standardized, independent, composable, deployable, and documented. They communicate through interfaces and are designed to achieve reusability. The document outlines characteristics of components and discusses different views of components, including object-oriented, conventional, and process-related views. It also covers topics like component-level design principles, packaging, cohesion, and coupling.
This document discusses techniques for gathering software requirements, including interviews, workshops, observations, questionnaires, and document analysis. It outlines direct and indirect data collection methods, and levels of requirements from business goals to use cases. Stakeholder involvement at each level is described. The iterative nature of requirements elicitation and management is emphasized. Effective elicitation requires understanding stakeholders, crafting questions, and documenting open issues for future refinement.
The document discusses key aspects of developing a software requirements specification (SRS) document. It notes that the SRS serves as a contract between developers and customers, detailing functional and non-functional requirements without specifying solutions. An effective SRS is unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, modifiable, traceable and usable for subsequent development and maintenance phases. The document provides examples of both good and bad SRS qualities.
This course covers software requirement engineering over 10 topics, including basics, processes, management, and tools. Students will be assessed through a final exam (60%), midterm (15%), and tutorials/presentations (25%). The course lab will provide hands-on experience with requirements tools and models. Requirements are conditions that must be met by a system, and define customer expectations, system boundaries, and quality attributes from different perspectives. Poor requirements can lead to imprecise, ambiguous, contradictory, changing, low quality requirements or missing requirements.
This document provides an overview of design patterns including their definition, utility, essential elements, and examples. It discusses creational patterns like singleton, factory, and builder. Structural patterns covered include adapter, proxy, and composite. Behavioral patterns like command and iterator are also introduced. The document is presented as a slideshow by Dr. Lilia Sfaxi on design patterns for software engineering.
Requirement analysis and specification, software engineeringRupesh Vaishnav
The document discusses the key tasks in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. It describes each task such as inception involves establishing a basic understanding of the problem and potential solutions through questioning stakeholders. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders through techniques like meetings. Specification can take the form of documents, models, scenarios or prototypes. The requirements specification is an important output and should have certain characteristics like being unambiguous and traceable.
The document discusses various software production process models, including traditional waterfall models, iterative models like the spiral model, and agile methodologies. Waterfall models involve sequential phases from requirements to maintenance but lack flexibility. Iterative models divide the process into increments with feedback between phases. Agile methods like Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Smart emphasize rapid, incremental delivery, automating processes, and customer involvement. The choice of model depends on factors like requirements volatility, team experience, and project priorities.
The document discusses requirements analysis for software engineering projects. It describes requirements analysis as bridging system requirements and software design by providing models of system information, functions, and behavior. The objectives of analysis are identified as identifying customer needs, evaluating feasibility, allocating functions, and establishing schedules and constraints. Common analysis techniques discussed include interviews, use cases, prototyping, and specification documentation.
This document discusses requirement elicitation techniques used in systems analysis and design. It describes requirement elicitation as identifying stakeholder needs through interviews, meetings, ethnography and other techniques. It outlines best practices for elicitation including preparing for interviews and meetings, using scenarios, questionnaires, and observation to understand user needs and ensure requirements are unambiguous, complete, verifiable and consistent. The goal of elicitation is to gather requirements that accurately reflect stakeholder needs.
The document discusses key aspects of software requirement engineering including requirement elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation. It describes the purpose of a Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document as a contract between developers and customers. Various techniques are covered for specifying requirements such as informal, semi-formal, and formal specifications. The document also outlines best practices for writing requirements and standards for SRS documents.
The document discusses various aspects of requirements engineering including processes, techniques, challenges, and importance. It describes requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Key points covered include feasibility studies, types of requirements, characteristics of good requirements, requirements traceability and evolution. Diagrams like use cases, activity diagrams and data flow diagrams are presented as examples of requirements specification outputs.
Requirement prioritization is used in Software product management for determining which candidate requirements of a software product should be included in a certain release. Requirements are also prioritized to minimize risk during development so that the most important or high risk requirements are implemented first. Several methods for assessing a prioritization of software requirements exist.
The document discusses software requirement specification and the requirement engineering process. It describes how requirements are elicited from stakeholders, analyzed for consistency and completeness, and specified in a requirements document. The key activities in requirements engineering include requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and management, which are iterative processes.
The document provides an overview of the key topics covered in Chapter 4 of the textbook "Software Engineering" related to requirements engineering. It discusses the objectives of requirements engineering, which are to discover and document software requirements through elicitation, analysis, and validation activities. It covers the differences between functional and non-functional requirements, common requirements engineering processes, and techniques for eliciting requirements such as interviews and ethnography. The document also provides examples of requirements for a mental healthcare management system.
1. Software development life cycle models break down the development process into distinct phases to manage complexity. Common models include waterfall, incremental, evolutionary (like prototyping and spiral), and component-based.
2. The waterfall model follows linear sequential phases from requirements to maintenance. Incremental models iterate through phases. Evolutionary models use prototypes to evolve requirements through customer feedback.
3. The spiral model is an evolutionary model representing phases as loops in a spiral, with risk assessment and reduction at each phase. It aims to minimize risk through iterative development and prototyping.
This document discusses requirement engineering and outlines its key tasks. It describes common problems with requirements practices like misunderstanding customer needs and lack of change control. The main tasks of requirements engineering are inception to understand the problem, elicitation using techniques like meetings and quality function deployment, and managing requirements throughout the project. The goal is to properly define what the customer wants to establish a strong foundation for software design and development.
This document discusses requirement engineering and outlines its key tasks. It describes common problems like misunderstanding customer needs and lack of change control. The tasks are inception to understand the problem, elicitation using techniques like meetings and quality function deployment, and requirements management throughout the project. Elicitation aims to identify all requirements through collaboration with stakeholders.
Requirements engineering process in software engineeringPreeti Mishra
Requirement Engineering (RE) involves understanding what customers want through tasks like elicitation, negotiation, and specification. RE helps establish requirements that provide a solid foundation for design and construction. The key RE tasks are inception to understand the problem, elicitation by drawing out requirements, elaboration by creating analysis models, negotiation to agree on a realistic solution, specification to formally describe requirements, validation to check for errors or issues, and management of changing requirements. RE helps software engineers better understand problems to solve through participation with customers, managers, and end users.
The document discusses the key tasks in requirements engineering: inception to initially understand user needs, elicitation to gather requirements, elaboration to further analyze and model requirements, negotiation to reconcile conflicts, specification to formally document requirements, validation to verify requirements quality, and management to track requirements throughout the project. The tasks involve collaborative activities like interviews and workshops to capture ambiguous and changing user needs and transform them into clear, consistent requirements that form the basis for subsequent software design and development.
Requirements engineering involves multiple tasks to ensure software engineers understand customer needs. It begins with inception to establish basic understanding, then elicitation gathers requirements from stakeholders. During elaboration, requirements are analyzed and modeled. Negotiation reconciles customer wants with feasibility. Requirements are then specified and validated before being managed throughout the project. The goals are to avoid building the wrong solution and establish a solid foundation for design.
The document discusses requirement analysis and software design. It defines requirement analysis as determining user expectations for a new product. Several techniques for gathering requirements are described, including interviews, questionnaires, observation, and document analysis. The document then discusses software design, including architectural models like 3-tier architecture. It also covers domain modeling, database design, coding practices, and testing approaches like unit testing and acceptance testing. Documentation for requirements, design, and testing is recommended.
The document discusses software requirement engineering. It outlines the objective of requirement engineering as understanding issues, processes, elicitation and specification techniques. It describes requirement engineering as identifying user needs and bridging them to software capabilities. The key tasks are inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. Requirements errors are most costly if found late, so requirement engineering aims to establish a solid foundation early in development.
The document discusses software requirements analysis. It explains that gathering requirements accurately is important to estimate costs and ensure project success. There are different types of requirements like functional, non-functional, technical etc. Requirements should be clear, complete, verifiable and traceable. The requirements analysis process involves gathering, analyzing, documenting and validating requirements. Various techniques are used for gathering requirements like interviews, surveys, task analysis etc. Issues like unclear stakeholder needs, poor communication and starting development before requirements are clear can impact requirements analysis.
The document discusses requirement gathering and analysis. It emphasizes the importance of requirements in project success and describes key tasks in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, and elaboration. During inception, questions are asked to understand the problem, stakeholders, and desired solution. Elicitation involves discovering requirements through collaboration and techniques like use cases. Elaboration refines information through analysis modeling with elements like use cases, classes, and behaviors. The goal is a model that defines the functional, informational, and behavioral domains of the problem.
This lecture provide a review of requirement engineering process. The slides have been prepared after reading Ian Summerville and Roger Pressman work. This lecture is helpful to understand user, and user requirements.
The systematic use of proven principles, techniques ,languages and tools for the cost-effective analysis ,documentation and on-going evolution of user needs and the external behavior of a system to satisfy those user needs.
Requirement Elicitation
Facilitated Application Specification Technique(FAST)
Quality Function Deployment
USE-CASES
Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer requirements and constraints for a system. It involves tasks such as inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation, and requirements management. The goal is to define what the customer wants in a structured, organized manner through techniques like collaborative gathering, use case development, and quality function deployment. This establishes a solid foundation for design and construction of the software system.
Requirements engineering is the process of establishing the services a system should provide and the constraints under which it should operate. It involves several key tasks: inception to understand the problem domain; elicitation to gather requirements; elaboration to refine and model requirements; negotiation to prioritize requirements; specification to document requirements; validation to verify requirements; and management to track requirements throughout the project. The goal is to clearly define what the customer wants in order to establish a solid foundation for software development.
This document discusses project management principles and processes. It covers topics such as the importance of project management, knowledge areas, project identification and planning, risk management, and project execution. The document provides examples of projects and defines characteristics that distinguish projects from routine tasks. It also discusses project life cycles, activities involved in project execution like requirements analysis and testing, and potential problems in software projects.
This document provides an overview of a course on software requirements engineering. It discusses how following requirements engineering practices can improve project quality, meet schedules by controlling scope and changes, and increase customer satisfaction. The course covers topics like what requirements are, how to develop them, requirements for different project types, requirements management, and implementing requirements engineering. It also lists recommended books on requirements and provides an excerpt from part of the course which defines different types of requirements and discusses requirements development and management.
The document describes the key activities and concepts in software development processes including requirements analysis, specification, architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. It discusses various process models like waterfall, agile, iterative, RAD, and XP. It also covers supporting disciplines such as configuration management, documentation, quality assurance, and project management as well as development tools.
1. Requirements analysis identifies customer needs, evaluates feasibility, and establishes system definitions and specifications. It bridges the gap between requirements engineering and system design.
2. Requirements analysis has several phases including problem recognition, evaluation and synthesis of possible solutions, help modeling, and writing definitions and specifications. It also considers management questions around effort, roles, challenges, and costs.
3. Requirements analysis determines functional requirements describing system behavior and inputs/outputs, as well as non-functional requirements around performance, interfaces, and user factors. It also validates that requirements are correct, consistent, complete, and testable.
This document discusses requirements engineering (RE) and requirements elicitation. It defines requirements as conditions or capabilities needed by users. Requirements can be functional (specifying system functions) or non-functional (specifying quality attributes). The RE process involves eliciting, analyzing, specifying, verifying, and managing requirements. Requirements elicitation is the first critical task, which discovers requirements from stakeholders through understanding their needs, domain, and problems. Elicitation works to produce requirements documents and other artifacts. Challenges to elicitation include scope issues, volatility of requirements over time, and difficulties in stakeholders communicating their needs clearly.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard modeling language used to document and visualize the design of object-oriented software systems. It was developed in the 1990s to standardize the different object-oriented modeling notations that existed. UML is based on several influential object-oriented analysis and design methodologies. It includes diagrams for modeling a system's structural and behavioral elements, and has continued to evolve with refinements and expanded applicability. Use case diagrams are one type of UML diagram that are used to define system behaviors and goals from the perspective of different user types or external entities known as actors.
UML component diagrams describe software components and their dependencies. A component represents a modular and replaceable unit with well-defined interfaces. Component diagrams show the organization and dependencies between components using interfaces, dependencies, ports, and connectors. They can show both the external view of a component's interfaces as well as its internal structure by nesting other components or classes.
Activity diagrams show the flow and sequence of activities in a system by depicting actions, decisions, and parallel processes through graphical symbols like activities, transitions, decisions, and swimlanes. They are used to model workflows, use cases, and complex methods by defining activities, states, objects, responsibilities, and connections between elements. Guidelines are provided for creating activity diagrams, such as identifying the workflow objective, pre/post-conditions, activities, states, objects, responsibilities, and evaluating for concurrency.
Object diagrams represent a snapshot of a system at a particular moment, showing the concrete instances of classes and their relationships. They capture the static view of a system to show object behaviors and relationships from a practical perspective. Unlike class diagrams which show abstract representations, object diagrams depict real-world objects and their unlimited possible instances. They are used for forward and reverse engineering, modeling object relationships and interactions, and understanding system behavior.
Sequence diagrams show the interactions between objects over time by depicting object lifelines and messages exchanged. They emphasize the time ordering of messages. To create a sequence diagram, identify participating objects and messages, lay out object lifelines across the top, and draw messages between lifelines from top to bottom based on timing. Activation boxes on lifelines indicate when objects are active. Sequence diagrams help document and understand the logical flow of a system.
State chart diagrams define the different states an object can be in during its lifetime, and how it transitions between states in response to events. They are useful for modeling reactive systems by describing the flow of control from one state to another. The key elements are initial and final states, states represented by rectangles, and transitions between states indicated by arrows. State chart diagrams are used to model the dynamic behavior and lifetime of objects in a system and identify the events that trigger state changes.
This document provides an overview of use case diagrams and use cases. It defines what a use case is, including that it captures a user's interaction with a system to achieve a goal. It describes the key components of a use case diagram, including actors, use cases, and relationships between use cases like generalization, inclusion, and extension. An example use case diagram for a money withdrawal from an ATM is presented to illustrate these concepts. Guidelines for documenting use cases with descriptions of flows, exceptions, and other details are also provided.
This document discusses software quality and metrics. It defines software quality as conformance to requirements, standards, and implicit expectations. It outlines ISO 9126 quality factors like functionality, reliability, usability, and maintainability. It describes five views of quality: transcendental, user, manufacturing, product, and value-based. It also discusses types of metrics like product, process, and project metrics. Product metrics measure characteristics like size, complexity, and quality level. The document provides guidelines for developing, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting software metrics.
This document discusses key concepts in software design engineering including analysis models, design models, the programmer's approach versus best practices, purposes of design, quality guidelines, design principles, fundamental concepts like abstraction and architecture, and specific design concepts like patterns, modularity, and information hiding. It emphasizes that design is important for translating requirements into a quality software solution before implementation begins.
The document provides an overview of architectural design in software engineering. It defines software architecture as the structure of components, relationships between them, and properties. The key steps in architectural design are creating data design, representing structure, analyzing styles, and elaborating chosen style. It emphasizes software components and their focus. Examples of architectural styles discussed include data flow, call-and-return, data-centered, and virtual machine.
Object oriented concepts can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Objects have state, behavior, and identity. State represents the properties and values of an object, behavior is defined by the operations or methods that can be performed on an object, and identity uniquely distinguishes one object from all others. Key concepts in object orientation include abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, hierarchy, polymorphism, and life span of objects. These concepts help organize programs through the definition and use of classes and objects.
Unit 7 performing user interface designPreeti Mishra
The document discusses user interface design principles and models. It provides three key principles for user interface design:
1. Place users in control of the interface and allow for flexible, interruptible, and customizable interaction.
2. Reduce users' memory load by minimizing what they need to remember, establishing defaults, and progressively disclosing information.
3. Make the interface consistent across screens, applications, and interaction models to maintain user expectations.
It also describes four models involved in interface design: the user profile model, design model, implementation model, and user's mental model. The role of designers is to reconcile differences across these models.
Unit 8 discusses software testing concepts including definitions of testing, who performs testing, test characteristics, levels of testing, and testing approaches. Unit testing focuses on individual program units while integration testing combines units. System testing evaluates a complete integrated system. Testing strategies integrate testing into a planned series of steps from requirements to deployment. Verification ensures correct development while validation confirms the product meets user needs.
Design process interaction design basicsPreeti Mishra
This document provides an introduction to interaction design basics and terms. It discusses that interaction design involves creating technology-based interventions to achieve goals within constraints. The design process has several stages and is iterative. Interaction design starts with understanding users through methods like talking to and observing them. Scenarios are rich stories used throughout design to illustrate user interactions. Basic terms in interaction design include goals, constraints, trade-offs, and the design process. Usability and user-centered design are also discussed.
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This document provides an introduction to human-computer interaction (HCI). It defines HCI as a discipline concerned with studying, designing, building, and implementing interactive computing systems for human use, with a focus on usability. The document outlines various perspectives in HCI including sociology, anthropology, ergonomics, psychology, and linguistics. It also defines HCI and lists 8 guidelines for creating good HCI, such as consistency, informative feedback, and reducing memory load. The importance of good interfaces is discussed, noting they can make or break a product's acceptance. Finally, some principles and theories of user-centered design are introduced.
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Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation with Hybrid Beam Forming Power Transfer in WSN-IoT Applications
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Reginald Jude Sixtus J and Tamilarasi Muthu, Puducherry Technological University, India
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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
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6. The Problems with our Requirements Practices
• We have trouble understanding
the requirements that we do
acquire from the customer
• We often record requirements in
a disorganized manner
• We spend far too little time
verifying what we do record
• We allow change to control us,
rather than establishing
mechanisms to control change
• Most importantly, we fail to
establish a solid foundation for
the system or software that the
user wants built
7. The Problems with our Requirements Practices
• Many software developers argue that
– Building software is so compelling that we want to jump right in
(before having a clear understanding of what is needed)
– Things will become clear as we build the software
– Project stakeholders will be able to better understand what they
need only after examining early iterations of the software
– Things change so rapidly that requirements engineering is a waste
of time
– The bottom line is producing a working program and that all else is
secondary
9. A Solution: Requirements Engineering
• Begins during the communication activity and continues into the
modeling activity
• Builds a bridge from the system requirements into software design
and construction
• Allows the requirements engineer to examine
– the context of the software work to be performed
– the specific needs that design and construction must address
– the priorities that guide the order in which work is to be completed
– the information, function, and behavior that will have a profound impact on
the resultant design
10. Requirements Engineering Tasks
• Seven distinct tasks
– Inception
– Elicitation
– Elaboration
– Negotiation
– Specification
– Validation
– Requirements Management
• Some of these tasks may occur in parallel and all are adapted to
the needs of the project
• All strive to define what the customer wants
• All serve to establish a solid foundation for the design and
construction of the software
12. Inception Task
• During inception, the requirements engineer asks a set of questions to
establish…
– A basic understanding of the problem
– The people who want a solution
– The nature of the solution that is desired
– The effectiveness of preliminary communication and collaboration
between the customer and the developer
• Through these questions, the requirements engineer needs to…
– Identify the stakeholders
– Recognize multiple viewpoints
– Work toward collaboration
– Break the ice and initiate the communication
13. Questions Asked..First Set of questions Next Set of Questions Final Set of questions
These questions focus on the
customer, other stakeholders,
the overall goals, and the
benefits
These questions enable the
requirements engineer to gain a
better understanding of the
problem and allow the customer to
voice his or her perceptions about
a solution
These questions focus on
the effectiveness of the
communication activity itself
• Who is behind the request
for this work?
• Who will use the solution?
• What will be the economic
benefit of a successful
solution?
• Is there another source for
the solution that you need?
• How would you characterize
"good" output that would be
generated by a successful
solution?
• What problem(s) will this
solution address?
• Can you show me (or describe)
the business environment in
which the solution will be used?
• Will special performance issues
or constraints affect the way the
solution is approached?
• Are you the right person
to answer these
questions? Are your
answers "official"?
• Are my questions
relevant to the problem
that you have?
• Am I asking too many
questions?
• Can anyone else provide
additional information?
• Should I be asking you
anything else?
15. Elicitation Task
• Eliciting requirements is difficult because of
– Problems of scope in identifying the boundaries of the system or
specifying too much technical detail rather than overall system
objectives
– Problems of understanding what is wanted, what the problem
domain is, and what the computing environment can handle
(Information that is believed to be "obvious" is often omitted)
– Problems of volatility because the requirements change over time
• Elicitation may be accomplished through two activities
– Collaborative requirements gathering
– Quality function deployment
16. Elicitation Work Products
• A statement of need and feasibility
• A bounded statement of scope for the system or product
• A list of customers, users, and other stakeholders who
participated in requirements elicitation
• A description of the system's technical environment
• A list of requirements (organized by function) and the domain
constraints that apply to each
• A set of preliminary usage scenarios (in the form of use cases)
that provide insight into the use of the system or product under
different operating conditions
• Any prototypes developed to better define requirements
The work products will vary depending on the system, but should
include one or more of the following items
17. Collaborative Requirements Gathering
• Meetings are conducted and attended by both software
engineers, customers, and other interested stakeholders
• Rules for preparation and participation are established
• An agenda is suggested that is formal enough to cover all
important points but informal enough to encourage the free flow
of ideas
• A "facilitator" (customer, developer, or outsider) controls the
meeting
• A "definition mechanism" is used such as work sheets, flip
charts, wall stickers, electronic bulletin board, chat room, or
some other virtual forum
• The goal is to identify the problem, propose elements of the
solution, negotiate different approaches, and specify a
preliminary set of solution requirements
18. Quality Function Deployment
• This is a technique that translates the needs of the customer
into technical requirements for software
• It emphasizes an understanding of what is valuable to the
customer and then deploys these values throughout the
engineering process through functions, information, and tasks
• It identifies three types of requirements
– Normal requirements: These requirements are the objectives and
goals stated for a product or system during meetings with the
customer
– Expected requirements: These requirements are implicit to the
product or system and may be so fundamental that the customer
does not explicitly state them
– Exciting requirements: These requirements are for features that go
beyond the customer's expectations and prove to be very satisfying
when present
20. Elaboration Task
• During elaboration, the software engineer takes the information
obtained during inception and elicitation and begins to expand
and refine it
• Elaboration focuses on developing a refined technical model of
software functions, features, and constraints
• It is an analysis modeling task
– Use cases are developed
– Domain classes are identified along with their attributes and
relationships
– State machine diagrams are used to capture the life on an object
• The end result is an analysis model that defines the functional,
informational, and behavioral domains of the problem
23. Negotiation Task
• During negotiation, the software engineer
reconciles the conflicts between what the
customer wants and what can be achieved
given limited business resources
• Requirements are ranked (i.e., prioritized)
by the customers, users, and other
stakeholders
• Risks associated with each requirement
are identified and analyzed
• Rough guesses of development effort are
made and used to assess the impact of
each requirement on project cost and
delivery time
• Using an iterative approach, requirements
are eliminated, combined and/or modified
so that each party achieves some measure
of satisfaction
25. Specification Task
• A specification is the final work product produced by the requirements
engineer
• It is normally in the form of a software requirements specification(SRS)
• It serves as the foundation for subsequent software engineering activities
• It describes the function and performance of a computer-based system and
the constraints that will govern its development
• It formalizes the informational, functional, and behavioral requirements of
the proposed software in both a graphical and textual format
28. Validation Task
• During validation, the work products produced as a result of requirements engineering are
assessed for quality
• The specification is examined to ensure that
– all software requirements have been stated unambiguously
– inconsistencies, omissions, and errors have been detected and corrected
– the work products conform to the standards established for the process, the project, and the product
• The formal technical review serves as the primary requirements validation mechanism
– Members include software engineers, customers, users, and other stakeholders
• Do any requirements conflict with other requirements?
• Is each requirement achievable in the technical environment that will house the system or
product?
• Is each requirement testable, once implemented?
– Approaches: Demonstration, actual test, analysis, or inspection
• Does the requirements model properly reflect the information, function, and behavior of the
system to be built?
• Has the requirements model been “partitioned” in a way that exposes progressively more
detailed information about the system?
29. Questions to ask when Validating Requirements
• Is each requirement consistent with the overall objective for the
system/product?
• Have all requirements been specified at the proper level of
abstraction? That is, do some requirements provide a level of
technical detail that is inappropriate at this stage?
• Is the requirement really necessary or does it represent an add-
on feature that may not be essential to the objective of the
system?
• Is each requirement bounded and unambiguous?
• Does each requirement have attribution? That is, is a source
(generally, a specific individual) noted for each requirement?
31. Requirements Management Task
• During requirements management, the
project team performs a set of activities to
identify, control, and track requirements
and changes to the requirements at any
time as the project proceeds
• Each requirement is assigned a unique
identifier
• The requirements are then placed into one
or more traceability tables
• These tables may be stored in a database
that relate features, sources,
dependencies, subsystems, and interfaces
to the requirements
• A requirements traceability table is also
placed at the end of the software
requirements specification
33. Goals of Analysis Modeling
• Provides the first technical representation of a system
• Is easy to understand and maintain
• Deals with the problem of size by partitioning the system
• Uses graphics whenever possible
• Differentiates between essential information versus
implementation information
• Helps in the tracking and evaluation of interfaces
• Provides tools other than narrative text to describe software
logic and policy
34. A Set of Models
• Flow-oriented modeling – provides an indication of how data
objects are transformed by a set of processing functions
• Scenario-based modeling – represents the system from the
user's point of view
• Class-based modeling – defines objects, attributes, and
relationships
• Behavioral modeling – depicts the states of the classes and
the impact of events on these states
36. Overall Objectives
• Three primary objectives
– To describe what the customer requires
– To establish a basis for the creation of a software design
– To define a set of requirements that can be validated once the
software is built
• All elements of an analysis model are directly traceable to parts
of the design model, and some parts overlap
37. Purpose
• Specifies the software's operational characteristics
• Indicates the software's interfaces with other system elements
• Establishes constraints that the software must meet
• Provides the software designer with a representation of
information, function, and behavior
– This is later translated into architectural, interface, class/data and
component-level designs
• Provides the developer and customer with the means to assess
quality once the software is built
38. Analysis Rules of Thumb
• The analysis model should focus on requirements that are visible within
the problem or business domain
– The level of abstraction should be relatively high
• Each element of the analysis model should add to an overall
understanding of software requirements and provide insight into the
following
– Information domain, function, and behavior of the system
• The model should delay the consideration of infrastructure and other
non-functional models until the design phase
– First complete the analysis of the problem domain
• The model should minimize coupling throughout the system
– Reduce the level of interconnectedness among functions and classes
• The model should provide value to all stakeholders
• The model should be kept as simple as can be
39. Domain Analysis
• Definition
– The identification, analysis, and specification of common, reusable
capabilities within a specific application domain
– Do this in terms of common objects, classes, subassemblies, and
frameworks
• Sources of domain knowledge
– Technical literature
– Existing applications
– Customer surveys and expert advice
– Current/future requirements
• Outcome of domain analysis
– Class taxonomies
– Reuse standards
– Functional and behavioral models
– Domain languages
40. Analysis Modeling Approaches
• Structured analysis
– Considers data and the processes that transform the data as
separate entities
– Data is modeled in terms of only attributes and relationships (but no
operations)
– Processes are modeled to show the 1) input data, 2) the
transformation that occurs on that data, and 3) the resulting output
data
• Object-oriented analysis
– Focuses on the definition of classes and the manner in which they
collaborate with one another to fulfill customer requirements
44. Scenario Based Modeling: Use Case Diagram
• Use Case Diagram ( already done refer to use case slides)
• Activity Diagram (already done refer to Activity Diagram slides)
47. Summary:
Elements of the Analysis Model
Use case text
Use case diagrams
Activity diagrams
Swim lane diagrams
Scenario-based
modeling
Class diagrams
Analysis packages
CRC models
Collaboration diagrams
Class-based
modeling
Data flow diagrams
Control-flow diagrams
Processing narratives
Flow-oriented
modeling
State diagrams
Sequence diagrams
Behavioral
modeling
Structured AnalysisObject-oriented Analysis
49. Purpose of Design
• Design is where customer requirements, business needs, and technical considerations all come
together in the formulation of a product or system
• The design model provides detail about the software data structures, architecture, interfaces,
and components
• The design model can be assessed for quality and be improved before code is generated and
tests are conducted
– Does the design contain errors, inconsistencies, or omissions?
– Are there better design alternatives?
– Can the design be implemented within the constraints, schedule, and cost that have been established?
• A designer must practice diversification and convergence
– The designer selects from design components, component solutions, and knowledge available through
catalogueses, textbooks, and experience
– The designer then chooses the elements from this collection that meet the requirements defined by
requirements engineering and analysis modeling
– Convergence occurs as alternatives are considered and rejected until one particular configuration of
components is chosen
• Software design is an iterative process through which requirements are translated into a
blueprint for constructing the software
– Design begins at a high level of abstraction that can be directly traced back to the data, functional, and
behavioral requirements
– As design iteration occurs, subsequent refinement leads to design representations at much lower levels
of abstraction
50. From Analysis Model to Design Model
• Each element of the analysis model provides information that is necessary
to create the four design models
– The data/class design transforms analysis classes into design classes along with
the data structures required to implement the software
– The architectural design defines the relationship between major structural
elements of the software; architectural styles and design patterns help achieve
the requirements defined for the system
– The interface design describes how the software communicates with systems
that interoperate with it and with humans that use it
– The component-level design transforms structural elements of the software
architecture into a procedural description of software components
51. 51
From Analysis Model to
Design Model (continued)
Data/Class Design
(Class-based model, Behavioral model)
Architectural Design
(Class-based model, Flow-oriented model)
Interface Design
(Scenario-based model, Flow-oriented model
Behavioral model)
Component-level Design
(Class-based model, Flow-oriented model
Behavioral model)
52. Task Set for Software Design
1) Examine the information domain model and design appropriate data structures for data objects
and their attributes
2) Using the analysis model, select an architectural style (and design patterns) that are
appropriate for the software
3) Partition the analysis model into design subsystems and allocate these subsystems within the
architecture
a) Design the subsystem interfaces
b) Allocate analysis classes or functions to each subsystem
4) Create a set of design classes or components
a) Translate each analysis class description into a design class
b) Check each design class against design criteria; consider inheritance issues
c) Define methods associated with each design class
d) Evaluate and select design patterns for a design class or subsystem
5) Design any interface required with external systems or devices
6) Design the user interface
7) Conduct component-level design
a) Specify all algorithms at a relatively low level of abstraction
b) Refine the interface of each component
c) Define component-level data structures
d) Review each component and correct all errors uncovered
5) Develop a deployment model
Show a physical layout of the system, revealing which components will be located where in the
physical computing environment
54. Quality's Role
• The importance of design is quality
• Design is the place where quality is fostered
– Provides representations of software that can be assessed for quality
– Accurately translates a customer's requirements into a finished software
product or system
– Serves as the foundation for all software engineering activities that follow
• Without design, we risk building an unstable system that
– Will fail when small changes are made
– May be difficult to test
– Cannot be assessed for quality later in the software process when time is
short and most of the budget has been spent
• The quality of the design is assessed through a series of formal
technical reviews or design walkthroughs
55. Goals of a Good Design
• The design must implement all of the explicit requirements
contained in the analysis model
– It must also accommodate all of the implicit requirements desired
by the customer
• The design must be a readable and understandable guide for
those who generate code, and for those who test and support
the software
• The design should provide a complete picture of the software,
addressing the data, functional, and behavioral domains from an
implementation perspective
"Writing a clever piece of code that works is one thing; designing something
that can support a long-lasting business is quite another."
56. Design Quality Guidelines
1) A design should exhibit an architecture that
a) Has been created using recognizable architectural styles or patterns
b) Is composed of components that exhibit good design characteristics
c) Can be implemented in an evolutionary fashion, thereby facilitating implementation and
testing
2) A design should be modular; that is, the software should be logically partitioned
into elements or subsystems
3) A design should contain distinct representations of data, architecture, interfaces,
and components
4) A design should lead to data structures that are appropriate for the classes to be
implemented and are drawn from recognizable data patterns
5) A design should lead to components that exhibit independent functional
characteristics
6) A design should lead to interfaces that reduce the complexity of connections
between components and with the external environment
7) A design should be derived using a repeatable method that is driven by
information obtained during software requirements analysis
8) A design should be represented using a notation that effectively communicates its
meaning
60. Introduction
• The design model can be viewed in two different dimensions
– (Horizontally) The process dimension indicates the evolution of the parts of the
design model as each design task is executed
– (Vertically) The abstraction dimension represents the level of detail as each
element of the analysis model is transformed into the design model and then
iteratively refined
• Elements of the design model use many of the same UML diagrams used in
the analysis model
– The diagrams are refined and elaborated as part of the design
– More implementation-specific detail is provided
– Emphasis is placed on
• Architectural structure and style
• Interfaces between components and the outside world
• Components that reside within the architecture
61. Introduction (continued)
• Design model elements are not always developed in a
sequential fashion
– Preliminary architectural design sets the stage
– It is followed by interface design and component-level design,
which often occur in parallel
• The design model has the following layered elements
– Data/class design
– Architectural design
– Interface design
– Component-level design
• A fifth element that follows all of
the others is deployment-level design
Data/Class Design
Architectural Design
Interface Design
Component-level Design
62. Design Elements
• Data/class design
– Creates a model of data and objects that is represented at a high level
of abstraction
• Architectural design
– Depicts the overall layout of the software
• Interface design
– Tells how information flows into and out of the system and how it is
communicated among the components defined as part of the
architecture
– Includes the user interface, external interfaces, and internal interfaces
• Component-level design elements
– Describes the internal detail of each software component by way of data
structure definitions, algorithms, and interface specifications
• Deployment-level design elements
– Indicates how software functionality and subsystems will be allocated
within the physical computing environment that will support the software