Requirements Engineering (RE)
1/2. Semester
5 ECTS | 4 SWS
Continuous Assessment (CA)
Understand What Users Really Need: Deepen your knowledge of requirements engineering—from requirements elicitation and prioritization to documentation and quality assurance—and develop precise specifications for complex software projects.
Contents
- Students
- learn to differentiate different types of requirements
- get to know different frameworks for requirements documentation
- learn to apply different notations for requirements documentation
- conduct different activities of the requirements engineering process (elicitation, validation, prioritization, traceability) as part of a project
- learn that innovation and creativity in an essential part of the requirements phase
Competencies
Students are able to
- Selecting the appropriate requirements engineering methods for a given project context,
- Translate unclear customer requirements into clear specifications.
- Independently identify requirements in a larger development project and,
- Assessing the quality of a requirements document.
Literature
- C. Rupp, Requirements-Engineering und -Management: Aus der Praxis von klassisch bis agil. München, Deutschland: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2020.
- S. Robertson and J. Robertson, Mastering the Requirements Process, 4th ed. Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley, 2024.
- K. Pohl and C. Rupp, Basiswissen Requirements Engineering: Aus- und Weiterbildung nach IREB-Standard zum Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Foundation Level, 5. Aufl. Heidelberg, Deutschland: dpunkt.verlag, 2021.
- J. Patton and P. Economy, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product. Sebastopol, CA, USA: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2014.
Lecturer
- Prof. Kirstin Kohler
- Dr. Karina Barreto Villela
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Module Details
| Semester |
1/2 |
| Lecture Language |
German |
|
Frequency
|
Not regularly
|
| Credit Points (ECTS)
|
5 |
| Course Coordinator |
Prof. Kirstin Kohler |
| Duration |
1 Semester |
|
Course Achievement
|
None |
|
Prerequisite for exam
|
None |
|
Exam
|
Continuous Assessment (CA) |
Weekly Hours (SWS)
| Lecture |
3 SWS |
| Exercises |
1 SWS |
| Sum |
4 SWS |
Work Load
| Lecture |
60 h |
| Self Study |
20 h |
| Assignments |
50 h |
| Exam Preparation |
20 h |
| Sum |
150 h |
