St. George: Lecture Summaries
This webpage will contain summaries of the lecture notes during the term.
Please note that these summaries are in no way a substitute for your own lecture notes (or notes borrowed from someone else in the class).
| Week | Readings | Lecture Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "What is Requirements Engineering?" "What are Requirements?" (Draft ch. 1 and 2 of Prof. Easterbrook's textbook) | Introduction 2up
4up What are Requirements? 2up 4up |
| 2 | "What is Engineering?" (Draft ch. 3 of Prof. Easterbrook's textbook) |
What is Engineering? 2up,
4up What is a System? 2up, 4up |
| 3 |  Standard
830-1998 for Requirements Specifications
|
Requirements Specificatiosn 2up,
4up Formal Inspections 2up, 4up |
| 4 | Notes on the PIECES framework. For more guidance on feasibility studies, take a look at Prof. Sauter's resources on estimation and feasibility. Axel van Lamsweerde's Tutorial on Goal Modelling ( )
from the RE'01 conferenceAlistair Sutcliffe's Tutorial on Scenarios ( )
from the RE'03 conference.Faye Baron's goal modeling extract |
Feasibilty Studies, Stakeholder Goals 2up, 4up |
| 5 | Ann Hickey and Alan Davis' paper on Elicitation
Technique Selection ()
from the RE'03 conference. Barry Boehm's "Software Risk Management: Principles and Practices" ( ),
IEEE Software, January 1991.
|
Elicitation Techniques, Risk 2up, 4up |
| 6 | Stephen White's paper on Business Process Modeling and Activity Models Stephen White's Introduction to Business Process Modeling |
Intro to Requirements Modelling, Modelling Enterprises 2up, 4up |
| Reading Week | ||
| 7 | No new readings this week -- a great opportunity to catch up! | Modelling Objects, Modelling Relationships 2up, 4up |
| 8 | Harel and Gery's paper Executable
Object Modelling with Statecharts (),
IEEE Computer, July 1997. (David Harel was the inventor of the statechart
notation). The entry on SCR in the Encylopedia of Software Engineering (Ed. John J. Marciniak, Jan 2002). |
Modelling State, Modelling Events 2up, 4up |
| 9 | No readings this week. | Midterm: 6pm in BA 1160 Modelling Interactions 2up, 4up |
| 10 | No readings this week. | Non-functional Requirements, Verification and Validation 2up, 4up |
| 11 | Karlsson and Ryan's paper A
Cost-Value Approach for Prioritizing Requirements (),
in IEEE Software, Sept-Oct 1997
|
Prioritizing Requirements 2up, 4up, |
| 12 | Parnas's paper Software
Aging (), in 16th
International Conference on Software Engineering, 16-21 May 1994
|
Software Evolution, Moving into Design 2up, 4up, |
| 13 | Software Architectures
2up,
4up, Exam Info |
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