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Introduction to requirements engineering

Introduction to workshop, objectives, participant expectations

Define three levels of software requirements: business, user, and functional

Requirements development and requirements management process overview

2.

Identifying users

Sources of requirements

Customer involvement in the requirements process: the product champion model and user classes

Practice session: clarifying users, user classes and product champions

Business requirements

Vision and scope document

Using a context diagram to capture scope

Practice session: writing business requirements and capturing scope using a context diagram

Understanding user needs

Gathering requirements through use cases

Practice session: use cases

Software quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements and constraints

Practice session: deriving software quality attributes, nonfunctional requirements and constraints

Documenting requirements: the software requirements specification (SRS)

Deriving functional requirements

Deriving functional requirements, system requirements and business rules

Practice session: deriving functional requirements, system requirements and business rules

Prioritizing requirements

NASA's ARM freeware tool to find requirements errors

Modeling user interfaces with dialog maps

Practice session: dialog maps

Reviewing and inspecting requirements documents

Practice session: inspecting a portion of an SRS

Generating test cases

Reducing the expectation gap through prototyping

Managing requirements changes

Requirements management process

Requirements management tools

Requirements traceability

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Optional: The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI 1.2)

Requirements (REQM and RD)