Distributing Responsibilities to Engineer Better Requirements: Leveraging Knowledge and Perspectives for Students to Learn a Key Skill

2009 Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training Pub Date : 2009-09-01 DOI:10.1109/REET.2009.9

O. Gotel, V. Kulkarni, M. Say, C. Scharff, T. Sunetnanta

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Getting students to appreciate the value of writing high quality requirements can be a difficult undertaking. This paper spotlights an educational experience in which students from across the globe were brought together to write the requirements for a software development competition in order to address this challenge. To account for a disparity of educational backgrounds while promoting quality, a model was designed to include requirements coaching, reinforced requirements auditing cycles and multi-perspective triggers for requirements change. The paper describes the multiplicity of roles that were created and the strategies that were undertaken in an attempt to improve the quality of the written requirements, summarizes the outcomes of the experience, and highlights the observed costs/benefits of teaching this skill and conveying its value in this manner. The application of such a model to distributed software development projects more generally is discussed.

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分配责任以设计更好的需求:利用知识和视角让学生学习关键技能

让学生认识到高质量写作的价值是一项艰巨的任务。本文重点介绍了一个教育经验，在这个经验中，来自世界各地的学生被聚集在一起，为一个软件开发竞赛编写需求，以应对这一挑战。为了在提高质量的同时考虑教育背景的差异，设计了一个模型，包括需求指导、强化的需求审计周期和需求变更的多角度触发器。本文描述了为了提高书面需求的质量而创建的角色的多样性和所采取的策略，总结了经验的结果，并强调了教授这种技能并以这种方式传达其价值所观察到的成本/收益。讨论了该模型在分布式软件开发项目中的应用。

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