Requirements engineering

Course goals

After successfully completing the course, the student:

• knows the phases of the RE process and understands their interplay
• can choose the most suitable technique for a given phase depending on the needs
• is able to express requirements in different formalisms, ranging from agile development to safety-critical systems
• understands and can execute automated reasoning techniques for analyzing requirements
• is able to read and comprehend state-of-the-art literature in the RE field

Assessment

• midterm (20% of the final mark)
• final exam (40%)
• group assignments (40%)

To qualify for a repair of the final result the mark needs to be at least a 4, or “AANV”.

Content

This course provides students with in-depth knowledge on the field of requirements engineering (RE).

The course is inevitably interdisciplinary, for RE is intended to elicit the vague, informal needs from the stakeholders and build a precise, formal specification for a software system to build before the course starts.

The following topics will be covered:

• the RE process and its activities
• requirements elicitation
• requirements interviews
• agile RE: user stories and acceptance criteria
• requirements modeling and reasoning
• low-code development
• linguistic aspects of natural language requirements
• requirements prioritization
• quality requirements
• next release planning

Course form
Lectures, workshops/labs, and a project.