Quick Exercise 8: Requirements Engineering Pt 2

Watch the following video that give you complementary information to the lecture. Answer the questions in your logbook and discuss:

• An Introduction to Requirements Engineering (10 mins):

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec0s0z5uXQ8

  Questions

  • What are requirements reflecting?
  • What do requirements define?
  • What are functional and non-functional requirements?
  • What is the third type requirement Ian Sommerville is adding (apart from functional and non-functional requirements)?
  • What is the definition of requirements engineering?
  • What are the consequences of wrong requirements?
  • Why is requirements engineering difficult?

1. Start thinking and preparing a list of functional and non-functional requirements for your project.

2. Draft a list of around 10 to 15 questions to help you understand customer’s requirements. In a later session (in two weeks’ time), you will have the chance to ask the customer (Lecturer) these questions to elicit the project requirements.