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IV2032 Requirements Engineering 7.5 credits

Kravhantering

Please note

This course has been cancelled.

  • Educational level

    Second cycle

  • Academic level (A-D)

    D

  • Subject area

  • Grade scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

At present this course is not scheduled to be offered.

Learning outcomes

Requirements engineering (RE) plays a fundamental role within the systems development process. The goal of this course is to bring in the concepts, methods and techniques needed in the eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and managing requirements for complex information systems. It explains how requirements engineering fits into a broader systems development process, and provides an understanding of the main challenges in requirements engineering nowadays.
The students will learn how to:
- Identify stakeholders and their influence on the system requirements.
- Specify functional requirements using different modeling methods.
- Identify and classify non-functional requirements, influences and constraints.
- Negotiate and prioritize requirements.
- Validate requirements.
- Document and trace requirements using computer-based tools.
- Manage changing requirements and establish traceability of changes.
- Practice the different roles in the requirement engineering process, by working in groups.
- Analyze the practical use of the latest scientific contributions within the RE subject.

Course main content

Since requirements management is a multidisciplinary field and closely related to areas such as general management, project and product management, product marketing, and industrial design, students from a variety of disciplines can benefit from this course.
The following subjects will be handled during the course:
- Roles and actors in the requirement engineering process.
- Classification of requirements.
- Contemporary methods for collecting and analyzing stakeholder requirements.
- Methods for goal modeling.
- Computer-based tools for documenting and managing requirements.
- Techniques for linking requirements to design models and vice-versa.

Eligibility

Literature

Preliminary:

Gerald Kontonya and Ian Sommerville: Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, 2002, 0471972088

Course outline
Lecture slides
Reading articles

Examination

  • PRO1 - Project, 3.5 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • TEN1 - Examination, 4.0 credits, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

The course examines through a project (3.5hp) and a written exam (4hp).
The written exam concerns grades F, Fx, E, D, C, B, and A, and for the project applies P or F. For the course as a whole, applies the grade from the exam and passed project.

Offered by

ICT/Systems Science (SU)

Contact

Jelena Zdravkovic, jelenaz@dsv.su.se, tel. 08-16 49 94

Examiner

Jelena Zdravkovic <jelenaz@kth.se>

Version

Course plan valid from: Autumn 11.
Examination information valid from: Spring 08.