SEE500 - Systems Requirements Engineering

Subject Title
Systems Requirements Engineering

Subject Description
The content of this course draws upon techniques for eliciting requirements such as negotiation, modeling requirements, management, and validation. Requirement engineering is the most important phase of the Software Development Life Cycle. This phase is used to translate the imprecise, incomplete needs and wishes of the potential users of software into complete, precise and formal specifications. The specifications act as the contract between the software users and the developers. Students study requirements engineering in the context of waterfall and agile processes for various types of systems and use-cases.

Credit Status
1 Credit 

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

1.    Formulate requirements for a given business case in order to maximize company profits.
2.    Create requirements for a variety of use case scenarios to fulfil customer objectives.
3.    Apply modelling software such as Rational Rose to facilitate the development of requirements.
4.    Compose requirements within the agile and waterfall project management contexts to define the project scope.
5.    Plan requirements for a specific software context such as embedded systems or business software to provide technical detail to the design team.
6.    Formulate risk analysis based on requirements to minimize project risk.
7.    Apply requirements management to account for changes in scope.

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