- course id
- WREQ
- duration
- 3 day(s)
- Aimed At
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Information Technology (IT) practitioners including analysts, testers, developers, managers, and quality assurance specialists, with current or near-future requirements engineering responsibilities.
- Prerequisites
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None
- Course in a Nutshell
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Perhaps the single most significant factor that drives successful software projects – those that meet customer and user needs – is the availability of a complete, consistent, clear, correct, testable set of functional and non-functional requirements. Clearly, organizations that can produce coherent, complete, consistent functional and non-functional requirements properly enjoy a decided competitive advantage, and are most likely to enjoy substantial returns on their software engineering investments. This course is dedicated to the science and craft of requirements engineering.
- Customize It!
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- Are you a member of an organization that produces real-time systems? We can create a version of the course that addresses requirements specifications for real-time systems.
- Similarly, if you have requirements management responsibility, we can orient the course toward the viewpoint of requirements management.
- Does your organization use agile methods? If so, we can customize the course to address requirements engineering in an agile development environment.
- Learn How To
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- Understand the major sections of the system requirements specification: functional requirements; data dictionary; performance requirements; interface requirements; design constraints; and characteristics
- Examine the role of the context diagram as a starting point for requirements engineering and system testing
- Define the nature and role of the use case as a vehicle for expressing functional requirements, and as a basis for specifying non-functional requirements as well.
- Course Outline
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- Introduction to Requirements Documentation
- Requirements process overview
- Documentation standards
- Audience
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Use case concepts
- Understanding the context diagram
- Components of a Functional Requirements Specification
- Creating an information flow diagram for a business process
- Flow diagram notation and examples
- Elements of a use case description
- Alternatives vs. extensions
- Main Success Scenarios
- Writing an introductory narrative
- Writing pre- and post-conditions
- Writing the steps of the main success scenario
- Extensions, Alternatives, and Fragments
- Writing the steps of extensions
- Writing the steps of alternatives
- Writing the steps of fragments
- Writing Data Specifications
- Data elements in structured use case descriptions
- Creating a data dictionary
- Editing use case descriptions for data element consistency
- Writing data structure specifications
- Non-functional Requirements
- Writing performance requirements
- Writing interface requirements
- Writing design constraints
- Writing system characteristics
- Inspecting Requirements Specifications
- Inspection process
- Benefits and costs
- Participants
- What to look for
- Wrap-up: Course Recap and Discussion
- Lessons learned
- Where to go from here
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