Title
Facing the challenges of teaching requirements engineering
Date Issued
14 May 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
This paper reports on our experience of teaching Requirements Engineering for undergraduate students. It is well known, the obstacles educators have in teaching requirements engineering. These obstacles are related to the very nature of requirements engineering: a multidisciplinary field that deals with both computer science and social sciences concepts. Teaching requirements engineering just with problems descriptions, as a basis for the construction of requirements specifications or requirements models, misses the point. Educators should also provide students with ways of gathering client information. However, to be effective in this regard, there is the need that students interact with clients. Our pedagogical strategy is designed to tackle these challenges. Notwithstanding, we need to have feedback about the strategy, which lead to the design of an assessment to gauge the efficacy of our pedagogical strategy. We, describe the strategy, stress its novelty in facing the challenges, and provide assessment results over 3 semesters.
Start page
461
End page
470
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85023615215
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN of the container
02705257
ISBN of the container
978-145034161-5, 978-145034205-6
Conference
2016 IEEE/ACM 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2016
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