20094 Software Requirements Engineering and Management

X400.410 CMPS

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Course Description:

Vague, incomplete, and ever-changing requirements are responsible for the majority of software project failures. Realistic work estimates and attainable schedules cannot be built without first understanding the true project requirements. Requirements engineering is the set of skills necessary for gathering, capturing, validating and managing requirements and their changes. It is key to reducing project risk, improving product quality, and increasing the likelihood of completing a project successfully.

In this course, students will learn the importance of requirements engineering – discovering and managing all requirements, including those which are often hidden until it's too late. Students will learn techniques for requirement documentation and management as well as methods for managing requirements change.

The course consists of lectures and interactive exercises. It is appropriate for software project managers, software quality managers, and team leaders, as well as developers and testers who wish to learn these skills for a current or future assignment.

Topics Include:

The importance of Requirements Engineering
Methods for understanding and capturing features
Attributes of a well-written requirement statement
Architectural (or "non-functional") requirements that are often overlooked and the importance of discussing and understanding them before development begins
Defining the roles and steps of a requirement gather/capture/baseline process
Requirement documentation techniques:usage scenarios, use cases, and sequence diagrams.
Requirements management issues, considerations, repositories/formats, and supporting tools.
Requirement change management issues, considerations, process definition, and supporting tools:how to manage and negotiate change.
Requirement traceability issues, considerations, process definition and supporting tools: how to select and implement the kind of traceability that will be most effective for their project.

Sections:

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