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
  • Other books on Requirements

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

Important Dates from the Registrar

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).