Requirements Engineering, Spring 2009

Requirements Engineering J175412 (5 ECTS)

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Final results now online at: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/intra/bednarik/RE2009/Re2009-results.pdf.

The following groups have submitted their project 2: Aki & Pankaj, Arttu & Teemu, Joonas & Toni, Petri & Joni, Raghu & Leke, Sita & Ding & Hao. If you feel your name should be here, contact me asap.

Exam results now online at: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/intra/bednarik/RE2009/exam.txt. Intra link: http://cs.joensuu.fi.joecat.joensuu.fi:8080/pages/intra/bednarik/RE2009/exam.txt

Please note that materials (presentations, papers) are located at the 'intra' part of the internet. Your computer needs to be located in the university network, or you need to use proxy, or you need to use VPN (instructions in intra: https://intra.joensuu.fi/atkkeskus/vpn/openvpn/).

I am behind with reading the papers, sorry for delays. Most of the surveys are good, the feedback provided is useful.

Project 2 is published. Notice the two intermediate deadlines!

Demo 6 is now online. This is the last demo.

Demo 5 is now online.

No lectures on 30.11.2009.

Demo 4 is now online.

Demo 3 is now online.

Files for review are now available online. See the review instructions in the project 1 assignment (updated 12.11.2009).

Due to requests, the deadline for first version of the literature survey project has been extended: 11.11.2009.

Demo 2's assignment is now online.

If you don't have a group, contact Roman as soon as possible.

Assignment of demo 1 is available online..

Introductory lecture's presentation online. See lecture note's section.

First lectures will be held: 27.10.2009, time: 12-14, room 2d106. Welcome!

Demos will start in week 45 (calendar), i.e. 2.11.2009.

Attendance to the first two lectures is necessary to begin taking the RE 2009.

Contents and objectives

Examine the state of art of the research and practice in Requirements Engineering - current literature, research methodology
Understand the core RE and its relation to other parts of Software Engineering, process and methods of RE
Gain practical experience and be able to apply some of the RE techniques

Course arrangements

General info

master-level level course, language of instruction: English.
course prerequisites:
required: aprobatur in computer science
recommended: cum laude approbatur in computer science, Software Enginnering
It will help you a lot to have any previous experience with designing any computer systems.
Contributing Student Pedagogy - students co-author the course, present in seminars/lectures

Lectures

Monday and Tuesday, 12 - 14, room 2D106

Lecturer: Roman Bednarik

Schedule and Exceptions:
2.11. - consulting times 13 - 14, room 307
3.11., 9.11., 10.11. - no lectures, work on project 1 and presentation. Consulting times 13-14, room 307.
16.11. Petri & Joni PDF; Raghu & Leke PDF;
17.11. Saija & Petri PDF; Ari PDF; Petr PDF
23.11. Anand & Ali PDF;
24.11. Sita, Hao & Ding PDF; Joonas & Toni PDF; Arttu & Teemu PDF
30.11. No lectures
1.12. Aki & Pankaj PDF; Kalle; Lars Koivukangas PDF;
7.12. Janne Hietala, Arcusys OY - PDF
8.12. consulting times as agreed per email

Lecture notes:

Introductory lecture PDF, 2.4MB.
Requirements Engineering PDF
Requirements Engineering and SW.Eng. models PDF
Requirements Engineering and Agile software development PDF
Requirements Elicitation PDF
Analysis and Modeling PDF
Documentation PDF
Requirements management PDF
Requirements based testing PDF
Requirement engineering tools PDF
Requirement engineering in practice PDF
BaRE method PDF
Requirement engineering in Arcusys OY PDF

Demo sessions

Teacher: Minnamari Naumanen

16 hours

Group 1: Tue, 10-12, room: 181

Group 2: Thu, 10-12, room: 181

Exception: 5.11. room TB179

Demo assignments:

Exam: 14.12. 12:00 sharp! room D106

Evaluation

Active participation in lectures, online discussions and demo sessions.
Calculation of the grades (preliminary):

Course projects: 20+30=50%.
Project 1: Literature survey 20%. Instructions here.
Project 2: Practical assignment 30%: Requirement document. Instructions here.
Student presentation: 10%, compulsory. Instructions here.
A final exams: 16%
Compulsory demo tasks (8, marked X) : 24% in total. Without passing the compulsory tasks, the course cannot be completed.
Normal demo tasks (16): max 5% extra

The course will be graded by using scale 0-5 (5=excellent and 0=failed), where 50% = 1, 60% = 2, 70% = 3, 80% = 4, 90% = 5. If plagiarism will be noticed, the course will be failed and misconduct reported.

Literature

Leffingwell, Dean & Widrig, Don: Managing Software Requirements, Addison-Wesley 2003
Bray, Ian K.: An Introduction to Requirements Engineering, Addison-Wesley 2002
Kovitz, Benjamin L.: Practical Software Requirements, Manning Publications Company 1999
Handouts at the lectures

Additional information

Roman Bednarik
firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi

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