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Introduction
Ed Yourdon

Requirements Management and Requirements Engineering: You Can't Have One Without the Other
Nancy R. Mead

When Telepathy Won't Do: Requirements Engineering Key Practices
Karl E. Wiegers

Implementing Requirements Traceability
Balasubramaniam Ramesh

Double Duty Metrics: Using Functional Sizing to Gauge Requirements Completeness
Carol Dekkers and Mauricio Aguiar

Disaster Looks Good to Me: Validating Technical Requirements for Nontechnical Project Managers
Lou Russell

Defining Test Requirements for Automated Software Testing
Daniel J. Mosley



In several previous issues of the Cutter IT Journal, we've covered the topic of requirements management, with articles that focused on tools and techniques for managing fast-changing requirements in a typical development project. But this month, we broaden our scope to cover the larger field of requirements engineering. As SEI's Nancy Mead points out, requirements engineering covers requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management.