Requirements engineering is the process of discovering, documenting and managing the requirements for a computer-based system. The goal of requirements engineering is to produce a set of system requirements which, as far as possible, is complete, consistent, relevant and reflects what the customer actually wants. Although this ideal is probably unattainable, the use of a systematic approach based on engineering principles leads to better requirements than the informal approach which is still commonly used. This book presents a set of guidelines which reflect the best practice in requirements...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2007, held in Trondheim, Norway. It covers goal-driven requirements engineering (RE), products and product-lines, value-based RE and the value of RE, requirements elicitation, requirements specification, industrial experience of RE, and requirements quality and quality requirements.

A brief survey of the major DBMS and HeI conference proceedings over the past 10 years will reveal isolated pockets of research in database user interfaces but little sense of being swept along with the general advances in DBMS technology and Hel. New data models have evolved to meet the needs of different application domains; persistent programming languages are blurring the traditional distinction between data definition and application programming languages; distribution and inter-operability have become issues as have the storage of heterogeneous media types; yet it is still rare to read...