Lecture Summaries
| Campus | Section | Room | Time | St.George | L5101 | BA 1130 | Th 6-8pm |
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The lecture note summaries will be posted below in PDF format. These notes will not be complete and you should add your own notes to them while attending lectures. For example, detailed solutions of examples covered in lecture will not be included in these notes.
| Week | Readings | Lecture Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is Requirements Engineering? | Intro 4up, 6up Requirements 4up, 6up |
| 2 | Writing Sofware Requirements Specs (an article aimed at technical writers; the first few sections are worth reading) |
Science, Engineering, and Systems 4up, 6up Software Requirements Specification 4up, 6up |
| 3 | Improving Quality Through Software Inspections Notes on the PIECES framework. |
Formal Inspections 4up, 6up Feasibility Study 4up, 6up |
| 4 | Faye Baron's goal modeling extract Ann Hickey and Alan Davis' paper on Elicitation
Technique Selection from the RE'03 conference.
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Stakeholder's Goals 4up, 6up Requirements Elicitation 4up, 6upStakeholder's Goals Elicitation Techniques--> |
| 5 | Barry Boehm's "Software
Risk Management: Principles and Practices" ,
IEEE Software, January 1991. |
Risk 4up, 6up
Intro to modelling 4up, 6up Info on project for Assignments 2-4 |
| 6 | Ambler's Guidelines for UML Activity Diagrams | Modelling Enterprises 4up 6up Modelling Objects 4up 6up |
| Reading Week | ||
| 7 | A helpful UML reference book is "The elements of UML styl" by Ambler, Scott W. It is available online through the UofT library e-resources. | Canceled because of snow storm |
| 8 | No new readings this week | Modelling Relationships 4up 6up Modelling State 4up 6up |
| 9 | The entry on SCR in the Encylopedia of Software Engineering (Ed. John J. Marciniak, Jan 2002). | Midterm (6pm, BA1130), Modelling Events 4up 6up |
| 10 | Standard
830-1998 for Requirements Specifications (very helpful for A3/A4)
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Modelling Interactions 4up 6up Non-functional Requirements 4up 6up |
| 11 | Karlsson and Ryan's paper A
Cost-Value Approach for Prioritizing Requirements,
in IEEE Software, Sept-Oct 1997
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Verification and Validation 4up 6up Prioritizing Requirements 4up 6up |
| 12 | No readings this week | Software Evolution 4up 6up, Moving into Design 4up 6up |
| 13 | No readings this week | Software Architectures 4up 6up, Exam Review |