Teaching Students Collaborative Requirements Engineering: Case Study of Red:Wire

This paper discusses the use of a template-based
approach for documenting high-quality requirements as part of course
projects in an undergraduate Software Engineering course. In order
to ease some of the Requirements Engineering activities that are
performed when defining requirements by using the template, a new
CASE tool, RED:WIRE, was first developed and later tested by
students attending the course. Two questionnaires were conceived
around a study that aims to analyze the new tool’s learnability as
well as other obtained results concerning its usability in particular
and the Requirements Engineering skills developed by the students
in general.

Authors:

• Dagmar Monett
• Sven-Erik Kujat
• Marvin Hartmann

Keywords:

• CASE tool
• collaborative learning
• requirements engineering
• undergraduate teaching.

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