Thiscourse deals with the elicitation, specification and analysis of software requirements and provides a critical description of available methods and tools, and practical exercises on applying these methods and tools to realistic problems. Three lecture hours per week. One term. Three credits. Prerequisites: General prerequisites, including CSE 3311.

• Lecture Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4.00pm-5.30pm in CB 129

• Highly Recommended (but not required):
  • Michael Jackson, Problem Frames, Pearson, 2001.
• Recommended:
  • Kotonya & Sommerville, Requirements Engineering, Wiley, 1998
  • Karl Wiegers, More about Software Requirements, Microsoft Press, 2006
  • Martin Fowler, UML Distilled, Addison-Wesley, 2003

A request has been made to Steacie Library to have the above volumes on two hour reserve.

Dates

We hope to have two guest lecturers on the following topics:

• Fit Table Descriptions for information system requirements: September 20th, 25th, 27th, and 4th.
• Parnas Table Descriptions for safety critical system requirements (possibly some time in November).