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Requirements Engineering for Large and Very Large Scale Systems Part I ‐ Processes and Tooling
Author(s) -
Berenbach Brian,
ClelandHuang Jane
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2010.tb01163.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , requirements engineering , computer science , scale (ratio) , scalability , systems engineering , system requirements , product (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , requirements management , software engineering , engineering management , engineering , software , database , world wide web , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , programming language , operating system
Requirements engineering processes in the large are very different from those on small to medium size systems. Most texts on requirements engineering, for example tend to describe small or medium scale systems (up to about 5K requirements), or if the systems are large, describe the processes associated with product development and product lines. Industrial projects, however, start at 20K requirements and up. The creation of scalable processes that will support a large infrastructure project of the kind we are reading about in the headlines today (e.g. “shovel ready”) can be a daunting prospect. This tutorial will present some of the challenges associated with the requirements engineering of such large and very large projects, and describe how to setup processes and tooling to support such projects. This is part one of a two part tutorial. The morning session describes how to set up processes and tooling for very large industrial projects, typically dealing with 50 thousand or more requirements. The afternoon session describes the unique nature of requirements engineering processes for contract based projects. Either session may be taken independently, but the attendee will get the most out of the tutorial by attending both sessions.