Requirements Engineering

Catalog description

This course is a thorough treatment of the theoretical and practical aspects of discovering, analyzing, modeling, validating, testing and writing requirements for systems of all kinds, with an intentional focus on software-intensive systems. The course will bring to bear a variety of formal methods, social models, and modern requirements writing tools to be useful to the theorist and practicing engineer. Students will be led through a series of weekly activities that culminate in the delivery of a complete software requirements specification project for a hardware/software system (first in draft, then in final form). The project is broken down into four subprojects, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis and Representation, Requirements Validation and Testing, and Final Requirements Documentation.