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 volume contains the proceedings of the fourth European Software Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invited papers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135 submissions. The volume has a mixtureof themes. Some, such as software engineering and computer supported collaborative work, are forward-looking and anticipate future developments; others, such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reports of practical industrial applications. Some topics, such as software reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concerns first raised in 1969 when software engineering was...

This book consists of a collection of thoroughly refereed revised papers selected from the submissions for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, SCM-6, held in conjunction with ICSE '96 in Berlin, Germany, in March 1996.
Besides 17 full papers, the book contains an introductory overview and 6 selected position papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on versioning models and experience, version space management, CM databases and workspaces, distributed configuration management, industrial experience with CM systems, and CM...