Book description
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2000).
Derek Hatley and Imtiaz Pirbhai—authors of Strategies
for Real-Time System Specification—join with influential
consultant Peter Hruschka to present a much anticipated update to
their widely implemented Hatley/Pirbhai methods.
Process for System Architecture and Requirements
Engineering introduces a new approach that is particularly
useful for multidisciplinary system development: It applies equally
well to all technologies and thereby provides a common language for
developers in widely differing disciplines.
The Hatley-Pirbhai-Hruschka approach (H/H/P) has another important
feature: the coexistence of the requirements and architecture
methods and of the corresponding models they produce. These two
models are kept separate, but the approach fully records their
ongoing and changing interrelationships. This feature is missing
from virtually all other system and software development methods
and from CASE tools that only automate the requirements
model.
System managers, system architects, system engineers, and managers
and engineers in all of the diverse engineering technologies will
benefit from this comprehensive, pragmatic text. In addition to its
models of requirements and architecture and of the development
process itself, the book uses in-depth case studies of a hospital
monitoring system and of a multidisciplinary groundwater analysis
system to illustrate the principles.
Compatibility Between the H/H/P Methods and the UML:
The Hatley/Pirbhai architecture and requirements
methods—described in Strategies for Real-Time System
Specification—have been widely used for almost two
decades in system and software development. Now known as the
Hatley/Hruschka/Pirbhai (H/H/P) methods, they have always been
compatible with object-oriented software techniques, such as the
UML, by defining architectural elements as classes, objects,
messages, inheritance relationships, and so on. In Process
for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering, that
compatibility is made more specific through the addition of message
diagrams, inheritance diagrams, and new notations that go with
them. In addition, state charts, while never excluded, are now
specifically included as a representation of sequential
machines.
These additions make definition of the system/software boundary
even more straightforward, while retaining the clear separation of
requirements and design at the system levels that is a hallmark of
the H/H/P methods—not shared by most OO techniques. Once the
transition to software is made, the developer is free to continue
using the H/H/P methods, or to use the UML or any other
software-specific technique.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Also Available from Dorset House Publishing Co.
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Figures
-
Part I: Concepts
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. What Is a System?
- Chapter 3. A Framework for Modeling Systems
- Chapter 4. System Development Models
- Chapter 5. The System Development Process
- Chapter 6. Applying the Models to Development
-
Chapter 7. System Development Overview Using a Meta-Model
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. A Meta-Model for Development Projects
- 7.3. An Essential Model of the Development Process
- 7.4. The Enhanced Development Model
- 7.5. The Development Architecture Context
- 7.6. Development Process Architecture
- 7.7. Development Process Task Allocation
- 7.8. Variations On The Architecture Template
- Part II: Case Study: Groundwater Analysis System
- Appendix: Changes, Improvements, and Misconceptions Since the Methods’ Introduction
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2013
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780133488562
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