Requirements Engineering and Professional Practice

Module code: CO1106

Capturing the goals and requirements of stakeholders is crucial in order to reduce considerable risk to a project. Having a clearly defined and agreed upon set of requirements can make the difference between a successful project and a project that is out of budget, time, or both.

In this module, you will:

• Motivate the need of requirements engineering for successful software projects, describe the problems when requirements are omitted, and explain the requirements change management process.
• Differentiate between different types of requirements
• Demonstrate a knowledge of security and data protection issues in storage and usage of data
• Critique the value of a number of requirements engineering techniques, such as stakeholder analysis, use cases, interviews, prototyping, etc.
• Distinguish and choose between various modelling techniques for requirements documentation (such as conceptual and behavioural models)