Teaching requirements analysis by means of student collaboration

Teaching systems analysis is a difficult task due to the procedural type of knowledge that must be acquired by the students in a highly practical fashion, in similar conditions to the ones that the future software engineer will find in the workplace. Some years ago we put into practice a model for the laboratory classroom in which students belonging to different undergraduate software engineering courses collaborate in the development of the analysis of a software product, with emphasis on the quality of both the process and the final product. A group of students plays the role of the development team and another plays the role of the software quality assurance team, carrying out formal technical reviews of the others´ work. In this article, the authors describe this model.