SW4591 Requirements Engineering

This is an in-depth treatment of requirements engineering concepts, methods, and tools. The role of requirements engineering within software engineering is explored as well as consistency, cost-benefit analysis, resolving multiple viewpoints, dependency tracing, and automated decision support. Topics are reinforced with examples from DoD applications. Prototyping is introduced as a means of assessing requirements early in the design process.

Prerequisite

SW3460 or consent of instructor

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

1

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to do the following:

• Identify the stakeholders for a proposed system.
• Integrate requirements viewpoints from different stakeholders.
• Document requirements using both informal and formal requirements modeling techniques.
• Derive test cases from formal requirements.
• Clarify informal requirements using test cases.
• Estimate project costs based on formal requirements models.
• Identify open issues in requirements.
• Design a prototype to resolve a given open requirement issue.
• Use storyboarding to elicit unstated requirements.