Negotiation and the Role of the Requirements Specification 1
Steve Easterbrook · 1993
this document for granted, concentrating instead on the downstream areas of software development. In this chapter, we argue that the problems of requirements engineering deserve greater study. To understand why this is so, we consider the role of the specification in the software engineering process, and describe issues which must be addressed during specification construction. The difficulties of requirements engineering come from many directions, including the sheer quantity of knowledge involved, the inherent uncertainty, and the need for negotiation where there are conflicting requirements. We conclude that a prescriptive framework to support negotiation of requirements is highly desirable, and describe a number of objectives for such a framework.