Requirements Engineering

Course aim

To equip students with the skills necessary to elicit, document, assess and maintain a set of requirements through the development of a system. These skills will include the use of contemporary requirement management tools and techniques.

Course content

Definition of a requirement. Importance and use of requirements in the system and software life cycle. Requirements workshop. Prioritization of requirements. Writing a requirements document. The need for estimating cost of schedule of implementing requirements. Requirements tracking. Determining requirements for products implemented by COTS components.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EEET 5047	Principles of Test and Evaluation N
EEET 4052	Principles of Systems Engineering

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External (Synchronous Online sessions)	1 hour x 10 weeks
External (Asynchronous Online materials)	5 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Create a first draft of a requirements document that confirms to the qualities of good requirements, Develop plan for requirement engineering activity over complete system life-cycle, Utilise Quality Function Deployment process to generate the relationships between the needs and desired functions

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.