IT 320 Practical Software Engineering: Requirements Management

Requirements Management

• Requirements management is the process of understanding and controlling changes to system requirements.
• It involves tracking individual requirements and maintaining links between dependent requirements.
• A formal process for making change proposals and linking them to system requirements is necessary.

System Modeling

• System modeling is the process of developing abstract models of a system, presenting different views or perspectives.
• It involves representing a system using a graphical notation (UML - Unified Modeling Language).
• System modeling helps analysts understand the system's functionality and communicate with customers.

Requirements Engineering Process

• The process consists of four stages: requirements elicitation and analysis, requirements specification, requirements validation, and requirements management.

Requirements Elicitation and Analysis

• Interact with stakeholders to discover their requirements.
• Document requirements and group related ones into coherent clusters.
• Metrics for specifying non-functional requirements are essential.

Requirements Specification

• Translate gathered information into a document defining a set of requirements (user and system).

Requirements Validation

• Check requirements for realism, consistency, and completeness.
• Errors in the requirements document are discovered and corrected during this process.

Requirements in Agile

• Product backlog is a combined list of all desired work, including user-focused stories, technical work, features, and ideas.
• Product roadmap is a high-level plan that describes how the product will evolve.
• User stories are short descriptions of features from the user's perspective.

Requirements Engineering Topics

• Requirements engineering processes
• Requirements elicitation and analysis
• Requirements specification
• User and system requirements
• Functional and non-functional requirements
• Requirements in Agile (Scrum)
• Requirements validation
• Requirements management

This quiz covers the concepts of requirements management in software engineering, including understanding and controlling changes to system requirements.