Final year project: A test case for requirements engineering skills

Author

Beus-Dukic, Ljerka

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

29-29 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of our approach to teaching a Requirements Engineering (RE) course which is offered as part of bachelor degrees in Software Engineering, Computing, and Mobile and Wireless. We describe our assessment diet and focus on a particular assignment - a report on student´s final year project requirements. The rationale behind this assignment was to assess the students´ abilities to apply what they have learnt in the RE course on a first complete non-trivial software project. In this position paper we discuss the benefits and challenges of using students´ final year projects as an effective platform to assess their knowledge and skills in applying RE.

Keywords

computer science education; formal verification; further education; final year project; mobile computing; nontrivial software project; requirements engineering course; requirements engineering skills; software engineering; wireless computing; Analytical models; Computer science; Educational institutions; Software; Tutorials; Writing; assessment; final year project; requirements engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET), 2011 6th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Trento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0954-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0956-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REET.2011.6046272

Filename

6046272