Requirements Engineering
27 April 2020 22:09
Topics to be covered: 1. Understanding Requirements
2. Requirements Engineering Activities
3. Types of Requirements
References: 1. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach - Roger Pressman
2. Software Engineering - Ian Sommerville
3. Concise Guide to Software Engineering - Gerard O’Regan
Principles of Professional Communication
Listen!
Prepare before you start
The moderator/facilitator
Face-to-Face
Take notes and document decisions
Team & Collaboration
Modularization helps focus
Picture is worth a thousand words
Learn when to move on
Good Negotiations make both parties win
Requirements Engineering
"The process of establishing the services that the customer requires from a system
and the constraints under which it operates and is developed. "
Requirements engineering provides the appropriate mechanism for understanding what the
customer wants, analyzing need, assessing feasibility, negotiating a reasonable solution, specifying
the solution unambiguously, validating the specification, and managing the requirements as they
are transformed into an operational system [Tha97]
What is a Requirement?
Requirements are the descriptions of the system services and constraints that are
generated during the requirements engineering process.
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Elicitation, Modelling & Analysis
30 April 2020 00:42
Topics to be covered: 1. Requirements Elicitation
2. Modelling & Analysis
3. UML Diagram for Requirements Modelling
References: 1. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach - Roger Pressman
2. Software Engineering - Ian Sommerville
3. Concise Guide to Software Engineering - Gerard O’Regan
Requirements Modelling
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Requirements Modelling
Key Points : Incremental, Independent, Delay Architecture & Details
Low Coupling, Value to Stakeholders, Simple
1. Scenario-Based Modelling
[Link]
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2. Data Modelling
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Key Points: Attributes: Attribute Types, Data Types;
Relationships: Cardinality & Modality
Not discussed in this course.
3. Class-Based Modelling
Potential Class: Information Retention, Operational Need, Multiple Attributes,
Common Attributes, Common Operations, Essential
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[Link]
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4. Flow-Based Modelling
Key Points: Context-Diagram, I/O Crucial, Refinement at lower levels,
Meaningful Flows, Flow Continuity between Levels, Modular Refining
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5. Behavioral Modelling
[Link]
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Unified Modelling Language
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Software Requirements Specification
30 April 2020 23:51
Topics to be covered: 1. Requirements Specification
2. Specification Document Structure
3. SRS Standards
References: 1. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach - Roger Pressman
2. Software Engineering - Ian Sommerville
3. IEEE Std 830-1998, [Link]
What is Requirement Specification?
"The software requirements document (sometimes called the software requirements
specification or SRS) is an official statement of what the system developers should
implement. It should include both the user requirements for a system and a detailed
specification of the system requirements. "
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S R S
[Link]
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Req. Validation & Management
03 May 2020 07:47
Topics to be covered: 1. Requirements Validation
2. Requirements Evolution
3. Change Management
References: 1. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach - Roger Pressman
2. Software Engineering - Ian Sommerville
Requirements Validation
Requirements Management
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Requirements Management
"Requirements management is the process of understanding and controlling
changes to system requirements."
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