Who should attend
The tutorial is aimed at people who are interested in acquiring practical requirements engineering skills. It is run as a participative workshop. Attendees must have a genuine interest in practical solutions to requirements specification. It is particularly useful for practitioners involved in doing requirements engineering.
Goals
Requirements traceability and quality assessment depend on requirements measurability. This workshop/tutorial explores the idea that a requirement is measurable, provided there is an unambiguous way of determining whether a given solution fits that requirement. Participants examine requirements measurability by building a requirements specification for a familiar system. A requirements template will be used as a guide for the workshop. The workshop finishes with a discussion of how measurable requirements can be used to build a requirements quality filter.
Contents
Introduction: the concept of a requirement as a potential misfit; review of the requirements template; guidelines for making requirements measurable; explanation of the case study.
Building the specification: each team will be assigned responsibility for specifying some of the requirements; teams identify requirements and suggest measurements for each requirement.
Reviewing the specification: teams present measurable requirements for discussion; discussion of the concept of using a domain-specific requirements filter for requirements quality assurance; the teams requirements will be amalgamated, and a composite specification will be made available to workshop participants.
Benefits for those attending
Insight into requirements and their measurability through practical teamwork.
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