Requirements Engineering - DAT230/DIT276, lp1, 2010/2011

Course code: DAT165
Examiner/Lecturer: Robert Feldt, Assistants: Ana Magazinius, Ali Shahrokni, Emil Börjesson

News

Re-exams from 2011-01-11 are available at the DoIT student expedition on floor 5 in EDIT building, Chalmers Johanneberg. If you missed the exam review on 2011-02-04 you can go to the student expedition and check your exam there. Last day to do this is 2011-02-16. If you have any comments, write an email to Robert Feldt and explain in detail what your answer was, to which question, how many points you got, and why you think you should get more points. You cannot sign for and take your exam with you in case you want your exam to be re-reviewed.
Review of the re-exam from 2011-01-11 will take place in floor 4 in hus Jupiter, Chalmers Lindholmen at 14:30.
Written exams are shown last time 15:00-16:00 on floor 6, EDIT building, northwest corner room, in Chalmers Johanneberg 2010-11-24. After that all grades for the course are finalized.
Re-exam takes place 08:30-12:30 on the 11th of January 2011 in V-huset at Chalmers Johanneberg. Chalmers students register through student portal and GU students through this link.
Your written exams will be shown between 10:00-12:00 and 16:00-17:00 in room 473 in house Jupiter on Chalmers Lindholmen on Monday 2010-11-15. Please don't all show up at 10:00 or 16:00 since there might be too long a queue then; randomly spread yourself out over the available time.
Now updated! The written exam has been corrected and a list of preliminary results can be found here (total score is listed base on your anonymity score from exam hall; if you have forgotten it you will have to wait for the formal lists).

44.5% failed and 55.5% passed. In the interval 48-60 there were 2 students (1.56%), in 39-47 there were 20 students (15.6%) and in 30-38 there were 49 students (38.3%).
Average score was 29.18, max score 48. The average number of sheets of paper used per exam were 11.99.
Hardest questions were (question number, average score, average in percent of max on question): (4, 5.05, 34%), (6, 3.81, 38%), (5, 7.67, 51%), (3, 4.10, 59%), (1, 3.95, 66%), (2, 5.12, 73%)
Some common errors:

Q1 - to list quality requirement types on a system (reliability etc) and not quality criteria on requirements. To use criteria for sets of reqs and not for individual reqs. To state both measurable and testable/verifiable (which overlaps).
Q2 - to miss explaining the importance of resolving conflicts and creating a shared and common understanding. To describe spec techniques instead of elicitation techniques. To not describe how different techniques actually complement each other, just state that they do. To describe all of RE and not only elicitation.
Q3 - to focus on only one type of analysis done by the CCB.
Q5 - to miss that reqs must be checked and ok before prio. To not use the graph or explain how the final prioritization is done based on the calculated values. To skip too many steps in the calculation.
Q6 - only talk about what agile or RE is, not about their future or their connection.

On the SPLE home page you can find exams from previous years in that course. They might or might not give you some feeling for how this years exam in the ReqEng course will look.
Location for Worskhop: Monday 15-17 in EB, Monday 8-15 in 3346, Tuesday 13-15 in EA, Tuesday 15-17 in EE.
Individual assignment 3 has been cancelled.
Details on the workshop can be found here: RE Workshop & Schedule (Note that some of you will present on Tuesday)
There is a possibility of a short extra session with your customers on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Check your emails for details. A few additional FAQ questions have also been added.
There is a FAQ to answer some common questions.
To book a second meeting with your customers click on one of the following links. If the customer you met in the first meeting does not have a suitable time for you or if you prefer to listen to the other customer it is allowed to switch customers. The length of the meetings are 50 minutes. Information about what room you should go to is posted in each link. There is a possibility that Alis meeting will be moved to Johanneberg. You will be notified through mail in that case.

Ali: http://doodle.com/rgw5c8nttanae8m3
Ana: http://doodle.com/4vd8e4kqr5abhax6

We have "bumped" the deadline for Post Mortem report to 10/10 at 14:00 so you have some extra time after submitting the SRS.
More information on PLanguage for the Group Assignment can be found here:

Starting from page 21 in the freely available "Evo" book by Kai Gilb
"Quantifying Quality: Finding Scales of Measure" by Tom Gilb

Please note that date and time and location for lecture 9 has been changed: 28/9 10-11:45 in HB4.
Slides from Exercise 3 on BDD (Emil).
List of groups for the group assignment. Rubrics for grading of group assignment (additional rubrics will be added for post mortem report and workshop).
Notice slight change of order in Lectures 8 and 9. This is to better suit your project.
Slides from Exercise 2 on "I* Req Spec" and Slides from Exercise 2 on "Scenarios and Use Cases" (Ali)
Slides from Exercise 1 on "Nat Lang Req Spec" (Ana)
Submit assignments through the FIRE system. The SEMAT assignment is submitted individually. After registering choose "Individual Assignment 2 - SEMAT" and submit your file.
Individual Assignment 2 - SEMAT, deadline: 2010-09-16 09:00.
NOTE!! There WILL be a lecture Wednesday 8/9 10:00 in HC4!
NO Lecture Tuesday 7/9 at 10:00 in HC4, Robert has a cold! Please check the site tonight to see if we can have tomorrow's lecture; the plan is that we can.
Schedule in Timeedit is now complete.
You can now access Individual assignment 1 and should finish it before the deadline 2010-09-07 14:00.
The guest lecture on the 10/9 will be in room Room "Babord" (house Äran), which is located in the back of the Älvstranden library building (map).
The abstract for the guest lecture can be found here.
Slides and video from 2nd lecture is up!
Short overview of course presented 30/8 11:35 in HB2 for new students.
Course starts 31/8 10:00 in HC4. Be there if you intend to take the course!

Dates

Below you can see the date, time, room and themes for the lectures. In the column marked "BB" you can see the parts of the main course book (by Brian Berenbach) relevant for that lecture, in the column marked "AD" you can see the parts of the supporting book and in the "Papers" column the relevant research papers. You are expected to study these chapters and papers that are relevant for a lecture around the time of that lecture (preferably before attending the lecture!). Lectures will not be directly based on the books and papers but will add additional material.

Date & Time	Room	Theme	Papers	BB	AD
31/8 10:00-11:45	HC4	L1: Course introduction, RE overview, Functional/Quality reqs [Slides, Video]	Nuseibeh2000	chapter 1	chapter 1
1/9 10:00-11:45	HC4	L2: RE Concepts & (SE) Processes, Bespoke RE, Stakeholder identification [Slides, Video]	Sharp1999	chapter 2
3/9 10:00-11:45	HA1	L3: Elicitation [Slides, Video]		chapter 3	chapter 2
7/9 10:00-11:45	HC4	!! CANCELLED for this date and moved to 8/9 !!!	IEEEStd830	chapter 4	chapter 4
-- 7/9 14:00 --	--	--- DEADLINE: Individual assignment Your background ---	--	--	--
8/9 10:00-11:45	HC4	L4: Req specification 1, IEEE std, Req criteria [Slides, Videos] & L5: Req specification 2, formal approaches, BDD, Quality Reqs		chapter 5	appendix A
10/9 10:00-11:45	Babord, Äran, Lindholmen!	L6: What they don't teach you about software at school: Be smart! (Ivar Jacobson)
14/9 10:00-11:45	HC4	L5b: Rest from last time [Slides, Video is same as for L7 below] & L7: Quality assurance, Standards, Process requirements [Slides, Video]	Example Req Review Checklist	chapter 8
-- 16/9 09:00 --	--	--- DEADLINE: Individual Assignment SEMAT ---	--	--	--
17/9 10:00-11:45	HA1	L8: Traceability, Prioritization of requirements, Triage [Slides, Video]	Karlsson1997		chapter 3
-- 24/9 17:00 --	--	--- DEADLINE: Group assignment Elicitation customer meeting 1 must have been held ---	--	--	--
28/9 10:00-11:45	HB4	L9: Agile RE, SCRUM for RE management, Req Management [Slides, Video]	Nurmulian2004	chapter 7
-- 7/10 14:00 --	--	--- DEADLINE: Group assignment report: SRS ---	--	--	--
-- 10/10 14:00 --	--	--- DEADLINE: Group assignment report: Post Mortem report ---	--	--	--
8/10 10:00-11:45	HA1	L10: Market-driven RE, Market/Tech push/pull [Slides]
11/10 08:00-17:00	See above	Assignment workshop - Presentation and opposition to group assignment
12/10 10:00-11:45	HC4	L11: Large-scale RE, Creativity in RE [Slides, Video]		chapter 9&10	chapter 5
13/10 10:00-11:45	HC4	L12: Summary and extra as needed [Slides]		chapter 12	chapter 6
19/10 14:00-18:00	Campus Johanneberg	Written exam

Course documents and material

Examination will be based on the main course book, the papers listed in the Dates and Deadlines table above and the material presented in lectures as well as in your assignments. The supporting book is optional but will be important to study to get the higher grades. To pass the course it is extremely important that you read all the course material, participate in lectures and are active in and finish assignments. If you do not you will fail! Remember that this is a master level course and requires considerably more than most bachelor level courses.

Main course book (BB): Berenbach, Paulish, Kazmeier and Rudorfer. Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (1st edition), 2009.
Supporting book (AD): Davis. Just Enough Requirements Management: Where Software Development Meets Marketing, Dorset House Publishing Company, 2005.
Papers linked to above in the table
Lecture notes as added above in the table after each lecture name (added a few days after the lecture has been held)

Assignments

The course is examined through a group assignment, two individual assignments and a final, individual, written exam.

All your reports for assignments and exercises should be formatted using the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (except for the SRS in the group assignment, see its description for details):

Author Guidelines (IEEE Conference Proceedings format)
MS Word format file
Latex format files

and submitted through Fire. The SEMAT assignment is submitted individually. After registering choose "Individual Assignment 2 - SEMAT" and submit your file.