Using extreme characters to teach requirements engineering

Claudia Iacob; Shamal Faily

doi:10.1109/CSEET.2017.25

Using extreme characters to teach requirements engineering

Claudia Iacob, Shamal Faily

School of Computing

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One of the main challenges in teaching Software Engineering as an undergraduate course is making the need for software processes and documentation obvious. Armed with some knowledge of programming, students may feel inclined to skip any development phase not involving coding. This is most pronounced when dealing with the Requirements Engineering practices. In this paper, we describe a practical approach to teaching Requirements Engineering using Extreme Characters. The exercise aimed to achieve the following learning objectives: a) understanding the need of including the end user in any requirements analysis phase, b) identifying the requirements engineering phase as a iterative process, c) understanding the necessity of constantly double checking the analysts interpretation of the user requirements, d) ensuring the rigorous documentation of both user and system requirements, and e) identifying the place of requirements engineering in the overall development process, and the forces and challenges around this phase of development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE 30th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	107-111
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1538625361
ISBN (Print)	978-1538625378
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2017.25
Publication status	Published - 7 Dec 2017
Event	30th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering and Training: CSEE&T 2017 - Savannah, United States Duration: 7 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017

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Name	IEEE CSEE&T Proceedings Series
ISSN (Electronic)	2377-570X

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Conference	30th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering and Training
Country/Territory	United States
City	Savannah
Period	7/11/17 → 9/11/17

Keywords

requirements elicitation
specification
verification

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