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Category Archives: Requirements

Nonfunctional Requirements Q&A

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Non-functional requirements Q&A: We answer questions from readers about using nonfunctional requirements on a real software project, and how to use them on a real software project. Non-functional requirements: Planning out how well your software will work A couple of months ago I wrote a post called Using nonfunctional requirements to build better software. It’s [...]

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Using nonfunctional requirements to build better software

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Understanding nonfunctional requirements — which some people call software quality attributes or nonbehavioral requirements — can make a big difference when you’re building software. But a lot of people have trouble taking a somewhat theoretical idea and applying it to a real-life project. Luckily, we’ve got an easy, practical technique to use nonfunctional requirements on [...]

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Requirements 101: User Stories vs. Use Cases

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Here’s a question that I get over and over again: What’s the difference between user stories and use cases? — Ron K. Before I dive into an answer to that question, let’s rewind a little bit and talk about where user stories came from. I like them because they’re a great example of how the [...]

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Q&A: How to succeed in business analysis without really trying

Friday, August 3, 2007

Hi everyone! We’re back from a summer break — no, not to go off to some vacation paradise. We were crunching away on our next big O’Reilly release, Head First C#. We’ll post more about it as we get closer to publication which, according to its Amazon page, is due out in just a couple [...]

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The Kitchen of the Future

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

What is it with futuristic kitchens? I swear I’ve seen the same TV segment about the “kitchen of the future” repeated on different channels with different people at least twice a year for the last decade or so. This wired article seems to have a good description of the generic kitchen of the future: Kitchen [...]

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