Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, An Experiential Learning Approach

Regev, Gil; Gause, Donald C.; Wegmann, Alain

doi:10.1109/re.2008.28

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“…For example, Regev et. al., [18] state that use of good RE practices in industry is hampered by a poor understanding of these practices and their benefits. To address this, they suggest that teaching RE at university level is essential.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability design in requirements engineering

Chitchyan

Becker

Betz

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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Abstract-Sustainability is now a major concern in society, but there is little understanding of how it is perceived by software engineering professionals and how sustainability design can become an embedded part of software engineering process. This paper presents the results of a qualitative study exploring requirements engineering practitioners' perceptions and attitudes towards sustainability. It identifies obstacles and mitigation strategies regarding the application of sustainability design principles in daily work life. The results of this study reveal several factors that can prevent sustainability design from becoming a first class citizen in software engineering: software practitioners tend to have a narrow understanding of the concept of sustainability; organizations show limited awareness of its potential opportunities and benefits; and the norms in the discipline are not conducive to sustainable outcomes. These findings suggest the need for focused efforts in sustainability education, but also a need to rethink professional norms and practices.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability design in requirements engineering

Chitchyan

Becker

Betz

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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“…• Simulated customer interviews and subsequent development tasks [8], [9], which can be combined with improvisational theatre [10].…”

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Experience-Oriented Approaches for Teaching and Training Requirements Engineering: An Experience Report

Herrmann¹,

Hoffmann

Landes

et al. 2014

Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

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Abstract. [Context & motivation]Experience-oriented learning is known to be more efficient than learning by listening. Small team projects can teach practical issues of applying methods and soft skills. [Question/problem] RE is a core qualification for diverse stakeholders, not only for software engineers. In trainings and academic education, people with different professional backgrounds and different experiences, representing different stages in the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, come together. The teaching's setup should take this into account. [Principal ideas/results] This experience report presents examples of various approaches for teaching RE in academia and industry. We discuss findings from interdisciplinary projects and game-oriented approaches, differences of these learning settings and differences which are to be considered when designing didactic settings for different target groups.[Contribution] This article presents diverse course concepts and experiences, and shall inspire other instructors to seek for additional learning approaches by taking into account their participants' heterogeneous background. Yet, RE knowledge is not only relevant for the software development team, but also for customers and other stakeholders, especially in the context of agile development. For instance, we see an increasing importance of business departments in decisions on information systems. This is not only caused, but intensified in the context of Cloud Computing, where business departments are able to buy Software as a Service (SaaS) products [3]. This trend is reflected in the authors' "experience" in teaching and training RE not only for IT specialists, but for marketing and engineering staff. KeywordsWhilst RE is typically seen as a task in an early stage of a waterfall project, RE is part of agile development, too. Teaching vs. Training:We distinguish between teaching and training:"Teaching" means the education that is part of the university curriculum during the studies and that prepares students for diverse work environments and roles. Most of the students have no work experience. Therefore, teaching cannot presuppose specific previous experiences or problem-awareness.In our understanding, "Training" is defined as commercial training given to professionals. It is typically customized to the "target group's environment", to the role (developer, project manager, etc.), and to the domain (e.g. automotive), and takes company-or domain-specific standards into account. Most participants in trainings have work experience and attend the course with specific questions in their minds which they seek answers for.In this experience paper, we try to find some answers to the question: "Which approach is appropriate for teaching or training RE to participants on which Dreyfus level?" This paper is founded on the practical experiences and the reflections of the authors compiled in diverse RE teaching and training situations. Related Work Four Forms of Experience-Oriented Learning Methods"According to Lethbridge's surv...

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“…One of the problems of requirements engineering education is that the complexity of real-world requirements engineering is difficult to convey into a classroom [70]. To address this problem, videos may provide rich and deep insights into real-world activities and allow students to apprehend requirements engineering practice and stimulate their reflective observation.…”

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Workshop videos for requirements communication

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Abstract-Shared understanding of requirements between stakeholders and the development team is a critical success factor for requirements engineering. Workshops are an effective means for achieving such shared understanding since stakeholders and team representatives can meet and discuss what a planned software system should be and how it should support achieving stakeholder goals. However, some important intended recipients of the requirements are often not present in such workshops: the developers. Thus, they cannot benefit from the in-depth understanding of the requirements and of the rationales for these requirements that develops during the workshops. The simple handover of a requirements specification hardly compensates the rich requirements understanding that is needed for the development of an acceptable system. To compensate the lack of presence in a requirements workshop, we propose to record that requirements workshop on video. If workshop participants agree to be recorded, a video is relatively simple to create and is able to capture much more aspects about requirements and rationales than a specification document. This paper presents the workshop video technique and a phenomenological evaluation of its use for requirements communication from the perspective of software developers. The results show how the technique was appreciated by observers of the video, present positive and negative feedbacks from the observers, and lead to recommendations for implementing the technique in practice.

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Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, An Experiential Learning Approach

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Cited by 44 publications

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Sustainability design in requirements engineering

Sustainability design in requirements engineering

Experience-Oriented Approaches for Teaching and Training Requirements Engineering: An Experience Report

Workshop videos for requirements communication

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