NDLI: How Consistent Is Students' Understanding of Requirements?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Leach, R.J.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	A constant thread in the software engineering educational community is that students must obtain experience with real systems in order to be prepared for the workplace. It is important to balance the use of real systems, which in some cases may be too large for complete student understanding, with the use of smaller, locally developed systems to achieve the same goals. Unfortunately, the requirements for real systems are almost never available. As a preliminary step towards the development of requirements for the student’s own new projects, we developed an exercise in a senior project capstone course to examine a preliminary set of requirements for a reasonably sized existing system. We found that student understanding of requirements for the existing system was mixed at best. However, we found that this initial experience evaluating an existing system's requirements aided with the students’ process of developing their own requirements for a later project.
Starting Page	1097
Ending Page	1101
File Size	235843
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424462704
e-ISBN	9781424462711
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2010.94
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	requirements analysis requirements testing Databases Employment requirements traceability matrix design test cases Computer science education Information technology capstone course Open source software Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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