MSc-IT Study Material
January 2011 Edition

Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
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Chapter 3. Requirements Engineering

Table of Contents

Objectives
Requirements engineering
What is requirements engineering?
The steps in detail
Inception
Elicitation
Elaboration
Negotiation
Specification
Validation
Management
Use case modeling
Use case modeling in the UML specification
Review
Questions
Answers

Objectives

At the end of this chapter you should be able to:

  • Explain the need for requirements engineering.

  • Give a series of steps for use in performing requirements engineering.

  • Create and interpret use case models.