COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSC 5019 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARIŞ TEKIN TEZEL

Offered to

Ph.D. in Computer Science (English)
Computer Science

Course Objective

This course aims to provide the students details about determining and defining requirements, rules and risks associated with requirements, requirement analysis and validation methods and requirement change management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To elicit functional and nonfunctional requirements using different methods
2   To be able to document requirements by formal and informal notations
3   To be able to validate requirements using different methodologies
4   To comprehend the risks of requirements process and its relationship to the rest of the SDLC
5   To be able to use CASE tools to manage requirements

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Requirements Engineering
2 Requirement Elicitation 1
3 Requirement Elicitation 2
4 Requirement Evaluation 1
5 Requirement Evaluation 2
6 Requirement Specification 1
7 Requirement Specification 2
8 Midterm exam
9 Requirement Specification 3
10 Requirement Quality Assurance
11 Requirement Evolution
12 Goal Oriented Requirement Engineering
13 Requirements Management 1
14 Requirements Management 2

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Axel van Lamsweerde, Requirements Engineering From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications, Wiley, 2009.
Supplementary Book(s): Phillip A. Laplante, Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems, CRC Press, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 3 15 45
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15555
LO.25555
LO.35555
LO.45555
LO.55555