User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments

Gilmore, David J, and Winder, Russel L. and Detienne, Francoise (edited By)

ISBN 10: 3540576533 / ISBN 13: 9783540576532

Published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994

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A near Fine uninscribed copy whose only fault is slight bumping to lower corner tips. The book is based on the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Bonas, France in 1991 and is uniform with the NATO ASI Series of which this is Series F: Computer and System Sciences, Volume 123. vii + 377 pages arranged in four parts :- Theme 1; Design Activities and Representations for Design; Theme 2: Code Representation and Manipulation; Theme 3: Technological Solutions; Theme 4 The Impact of Design Methods and New Programming. Appendices of references, author index and keyword index. **** A HEAVY VOLUME WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 14 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540576533
• ISBN 13: 9783540576532
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

The idea for this workshop originated when I came across and read Martin Zelkowitz's book on Requirements for Software Engineering Environments (the proceedings of a small workshop held at the University of Maryland in 1986). Although stimulated by the book I was also disappointed in that it didn't adequately address two important questions - "Whose requirements are these?" and "Will the environment which meets all these requirements be usable by software engineers?". And thus was the decision made to organise this workshop which would explicitly address these two questions. As time went by setting things up, it became clear that our workshop would happen more than five years after the Maryland workshop and thus, at the same time as addressing the two questions above, this workshop would attempt to update the Zelkowitz approach. Hence the workshop acquired two halves, one dominated by discussion of what we already know about usability problems in software engineering and the other by discussion of existing solutions (technical and otherwise) to these problems. This scheme also provided a good format for bringing together those in the HeI community concerned with the human factors of software engineering and those building tools to solve acknowledged, but rarely understood problems.

Synopsis

This volume is based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments held in Bonas, France, in September 1991. The workshop was organized in two halves, one dominated by discussion of usability problems in software engineering and the other by discussion of existing solutions to these problems. The papers in the volume are grouped under four themes: - Design activities and representations for design - Code representation and manipulation - Technological solutions - The impact of design methods and new programming paradigms.