Business Modelling and Requirements Engineering - Period 1

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of the goals that need to be achieved by an envisioned system, the operationalisation of these goals into services and constraints, and the assignment of responsibilities for the resulting requirements to agents such as humans, devices, and software. The processes involved in RE include domain analysis, elicitation, specification, assess- ment, negotiation, documentation, and evolution. Getting high-quality requirements is difficult and critical. Recent surveys have confirmed the growing recognition of RE as an area of utmost importance in software engineering research and practice. Within this course, we put an emphasis on requirements elicitation, specification, and modelling. The overall goal is to teach the key concepts related to RE and to create an awareness for the importance of this topic in practice.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) awards credits based on the ECTS system. Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.