Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

SIT/SE1 - Requirements Engineering and Empirical Evaluation
ECTS-Credits: 6.0
Summary: The module covers advanced requirements engineering approaches, which
provide the foundation for traceability of requirements along the software life cycle,
and empirical evaluation approaches, which provide a framework for the evaluation of
software engineering artifacts and processes. As a background students require a solid
basic knowledge in formal modeling and software engineering. The module consists of
a lecture and workshop on requirements engineering as well as a lecture and workshop
on empirical evaluation approaches. After completing this module students will have a
stronger knowledge to specify and validate software engineering artifacts and processes
in scientic and/or industrial contexts.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge: Requirements engineering for complex software systems
• Role-specic elicitation, specication, and documentation of requirements
• Requirements negotiation
• Requirements management and tracebility
• Requirements methods and tools
• Links of requirements engineering to software engineering research topics, e.g.,
agile methods, product lines, and quality assurance
Methods of empirical software technology
Skills:
• Understanding for empirical work in software engineering research
• Knowledge on empirical strategies and when to use them: controlled experiments,
case studies, surveys
• Ability to systematically create and test hypotheses on systems and processes in
software engineering
• Application of requirements engineering methods and tools
• Applying formal techniques for abstraction and modeling (requirements specication
and tracing, quality assurance of requirements models)
• Ability to create and test simple and advanced hypotheses on systems and processes
in software engineering
• Planning of an empirical evaluation study
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