Teaching Model-Based Requirements Engineering to Industry Professionals: An Experience Report

Abstract

The use of conceptual models to foster requirements engineering has been proposed and evaluated as beneficial for several decades. For instance, goal-oriented requirements engineering or the specification of scenarios are commonly done using conceptual models. Bringing such model-based requirements engineering approaches into industrial practice typically requires industrial training. In this paper, we report lessons learned from a training program for teaching industry professionals modelbased requirements engineering. Particularly, we as educators and learners report experiences from designing the training program, conducting the actual training, and applying the instructed material in our day-to-day work. From these findings we provide guidelines for educators designing requirements engineering courses for industry professionals. Index Terms-conceptual modeling, requirements engineering, industrial training'This research is part of the SPEDiT project https://spedit.informatik. tu-muenchen.de. Which aims at transferring research results from its predecessor projects SPES and SPES XT http://spes2020.informatik.tu-muenchen.de into industrial practice.