REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

Course Description

Requirements engineering is a software engineering process which covers all of the activities involved in discovering, documenting and maintaining a set of requirements for a computer-based system. It provides students with principles, tools techniques for requirements elicitation, specification, modeling, validation and management.

Course Objectives

The course aims to provide students with:

i) Knowledge about principles, tools and techniques for requirements elicitation, specification analysis and modeling

ii) Understanding of the role of requirements in system development and maintenance

iii) Skills in specifying requirements for Real Systems

iv) Knowledge about managing changes to requirements as the system is being developed and put into use.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

• Apply the principles, tools, and techniques for requirements elicitation, specification, and analysis and modeling to a software engineering problem

• Demonstrate the role of requirements in system development and maintenance

• Explain the difficulties of specifying requirements for real systems, as well as effective methods tools and techniques.

• Manage changes to requirements as the system is being developed and put into use