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User and System Requirements for Successful Software Development

 
Course: 218   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop software requirements for software-intensive systems using proven methodologies
  • Apply use cases to software development initiatives
  • Enhance and refine use cases using an iterative approach
  • Model user interface using mock-ups and rapid prototypes
  • Develop a requirements data model
  • Validate requirements and generate use case tests

Course Benefits

Requirements gathering is the cornerstone of any software development project. In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills needed to capture software requirements using clearly defined processes. You learn to specify user and system requirements, match the process to the size of your project, and apply quality and consistency tests to the requirements model.

Who Should Attend

Those developing, leading, designing, testing or managing a requirements initiative for a software system. UML experience is not required. Those responsible for identifying user requirements in a non-software development environment should take Course 315, "Developing User Requirements".

RealityPlus
Extensive PC-based activities throughout the course immerse you in a realistic user requirements environment, providing practical experience in constructing a software requirements model. Activities include:

  • Capturing stakeholder input from video scenarios that put you at the meeting table
  • Modelling requirements with UML diagrams using a leading CASE tool
  • Capturing, structuring and refining use cases in a realistic simulated environment
  • Developing screen mock-ups with an interface simulation
  • Producing a UML requirements data model
  • Validating requirements using IEEE standard checklists
  • Performing inspections on real-world use case documents

Related Courses

  • 323 OO Analysis & Design Using UML
  • 322 Systems Analysis and Design Comprehensive Introduction
  • 316 Software Testing Foundation Introduction
  • 315 Developing User Requirements
  • 216 UML 2 Comprehensive Introduction
  • 312 Software Quality Assurance
  • 381 Business Process Re-engineering
  • 424 Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction
  • 340 Project Management for Software Development

 
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   User Requirements for Software Development

Upcoming Dates

12 - 15 Aug, 2008
London
14 - 17 Oct, 2008
London
16 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
17 - 20 Feb, 2009
London
6 - 9 Apr, 2009
London
2 - 5 Jun, 2009
London

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User and System Requirements for Successful Software Development

 
Course: 218   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 
Course Content
 

The Importance of Software Requirements

The software development life cycle

  • Defining and differentiating between requirement types
  • Locating requirement sources
  • Development approaches

Presenting software requirements

  • Structuring the requirements document
  • Requirements components: text, diagrams, data

Structuring Your Project

Tuning your methodology to your project size

  • Matching the process to small, medium and complex systems
  • Differentiating agile from standard techniques

Analysing stakeholder input

  • Identifying and prioritising stakeholders
  • Eliciting initial requirements from input documents
  • Iterating requirements collaboratively

Applying the requirements process

  • Elicitation
  • Analysis
  • Specification
  • Validation
  • IEEE
  • SWEBOK
  • The Unified Process

Capturing and Refining Use Cases

Writing user stories

  • Scripting user stories and brief versions of use cases
  • Iteration and progressive elaboration of use cases

Creating structured use cases

  • Use cases as behavioural requirements
  • Identifying stakeholders and actors
  • Naming and scoping use cases
  • Writing scenarios: main and alternatives
  • Adding preconditions and guarantees

Iterating use cases

  • Refining use cases with stakeholders
  • Factoring common steps
  • Discovering extension scenarios
  • Verifying use case completeness

Organising use cases

  • Diagramming scenarios with UML
  • Choosing between free text and formal use case notation

Generating Interface Requirements

Integrating interface requirements

  • Supporting use cases with user interface mock-ups
  • Comparing types of interface

Producing interface models

  • Storyboarding and prototyping
  • Modelling interfaces with UML state diagrams and navigation maps

Data Requirements

Analysing data requirements

  • Exploring the use cases and the interface
  • Determining data business rules

Creating a requirements data model

  • Representing data models with UML class diagrams
  • Entities
  • Attributes
  • Associations
  • Adding associations' multiplicity
  • Maintaining the glossary

Non-Functional Requirements

Gathering non-functional requirements

  • Obtaining volumetrics
  • Classifying non-functional requirements using FURPS

Documenting non-functional requirements

  • System reliability: Availability, Accuracy and Failures
  • Addressing the "-ilities"

Validating Requirements and Producing Test Scenarios

Performing requirements validation

  • Achieving well-formed requirements through validation
  • Reviewing requirements with walkthroughs
  • Verifying requirements with inspections

Generating use case tests from requirements

  • Ensuring testability of requirements
  • Extrapolating test scripts and test scenarios from requirements
  • Relating requirements to system and UA testing

Managing Changing Requirements

  • Developing a process for managing requirements
  • Negotiating changes using a Change Control Board (CCB)
  • Confirming requirements through a traceability matrix
 
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User and System Requirements for Successful Software Development Tuition

 
Course: 218   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 4 Days   PMI: 23
 
 

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