Requirements Management and Use Cases

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Course Description

This Requirements Management and Use Cases training course is an introduction to management of requirements in software projects. It starts by introducing the concepts and ideal for someone who is going to be involved in the requirements management phase of a software project. Hands on exercises allow the students to apply the principles learned throughout the course.

 

Topics

•     Introduction to Requirements Management
•     Problem Analysis and Understanding user needs
•     Use Cases
•     Use Case formats
•     Scope Management
•     Refinement of System Definition
•     Traceability to guarantee that the right system is being built

Course Outline

Chapter 1 Introduction

•     Topics
•     What is a requirement?
•     Types of requirements
•     Important requirement concepts
•     Requirement levels
•     Requirement Categories
•     What is requirements management?
•     The cost of requirement errors
•     The game plan towards building quality software
•     Development Process
•     The Rational Unified Process
•     Inception Phase
•     Example of High-Level Requirements
•     Example of Non-Functional Requirements
•     Elaboration Phase
•     Example of a Use Case Diagram
•     Construction Phase
•     Software Development Life Cycle with the RUP
•     Requirement Gathering Roadmap
•     The roadmap
•     Step 1 Analyze the problem
•     Step 2 Understand User Needs
•     Step 3 Define the system
•     Step 4 Manage the scope
•     Step 5 Refine the system definition
•     Step 6 Manage changing requirements

Chapter 2 Problem Analysis and Understanding User Needs

•     Topics
•     What we plan to accomplish
•     Problem Analysis Steps
•     Analysis Steps
•     Stakeholders
•     Definition of Actors
•     Analysis Steps
•     Bring out the requirements
•     Interviewing
•     Step A: Interview every stakeholder
•     Step B: Requirements Workshop
•     Requirements Workshop
•     Organizing requirement workshop
•     Brainstorming
•     Brainstorming- Idea reduction
•     Documentation Analysis & Focus Groups
•     Interface analysis & Observation
•     Prototyping
•     Surveys/Questionnaires
•     Step C: Identify Constraints
•     Example - Given scenario
•     Example (cont d)
•     Registration system Problem statement
•     Registration system Problem statement(cont d)
•     List the stakeholders and users in the scenario
•     List the actors
•     Identify the constraints in the scenario
•     Creating a constraint list

Chapter 3 Vision Document & Managing scope

•     Topics
•     Topics - cont d
•     Vision document - Objectives
•     Vision document - Scope
•     Vision document - References
•     Vision document - Positioning
•     Vision document - Positioning (cont d)
•     Vision document - User Description
•     Vision document - Product Overview
•     Vision document - Feature Attributes
•     Vision document - Product Features
•     Vision document - Constraints
•     Vision document - Quality Ranges
•     Vision document - Precedence and Priority
•     Vision document - Other Product Requirements
•     Vision document - Documentation Requirements
•     Example of Vision document
•     Managing Scope
•     Define a baseline
•     Example of itemizing list of processes or use cases
•     Setting priorities
•     Example - Setting priorities
•     Assessing effort
•     Example - Assessing effort
•     Adding the risk element
•     Example - risk element
•     Get customer agreement on scope
•     Use iterative development process
•     Plan Change Request (PCR)

Chapter 4 Use Case Concepts

•     Topics
•     What are Use Cases?
•     Benefits of Use Cases
•     Use-Case Modeling
•     An use case is a collection of scenarios
•     To Use Case or not to
•     Use Cases
•     Use case modeling steps
•     An Example use case
•     Identifying the actors involved in this use case
•     Write the use case for the above scenario
•     Use case for the above scenario (contd)
•     Classifying Use Cases
•     A business use case
•     Example of business use case (contn d)
•     A system use case
•     See notes
•     Levels of use cases
•     Examples of Summary level use cases
•     Example of User goal level use cases
•     Examples of Sub function use cases
•     For use case modeling
•     Use cases are only one part
•     The Problem with Requirements Specifications
•     Relationship Between Use Cases and Requirements
•     Who are interested in use cases?
•     General Principles
•     Scenarios
•     Primary Scenarios
•     Example of ATM use case
•     See notes
•     Use Case interactions
•     Finding Actors
•     Finding Actors - continued
•     Documenting Actors
•     Where are the actors documented?
•     The Actor-Profile table for the course registration system:
•     Actor-profile table contd.
•     Example Actor-goal list
•     Goal List

Chapter 5 Use Case Modeling Use cases and supporting documents

•     Topics
•     Basic building blocks
•     Basic Building Blocks of an Use Case
•     Supporting documents
•     Conceptual model
•     Domain Model
•     Non-functional Specification
•     More use cases
•     Documenting use cases
•     Use Case Diagrams
•     Scope
•     The scenario we have been working on
•     Identify the requirements that must be addressed by the system:
•     Identify the use cases :
•     Example - use case model
•     Example - use case model for Registration system
•     Lists used to manage scope In/out list for the above example
•     Lists used to manage scope Actor/goal list for the above example
•     Example - Use Case Specification
•     Example - Use Case Specification (Contn d)

Chapter 6 Writing Use Cases 

•     Topics
•     Actor Personalities
•     Goal Levels
•     Pre-conditions and Triggers
•     Example of Pre-conditions
•     Guidelines for writing flows
•     Do's and don'ts" when writing use cases
•     Extensions
•     Use case linkages
•     Sub Use Cases
•     Example - Sub use cases with include & extend relations
•     Quality Measures for Use Cases
•     More Quality Measures
•     See notes
•     Who should write use cases?
•     Fully Described Use Cases
•     How much detail?
•     Completeness & Complexity

Chapter 7 Use Case Formats  

•     Topics
•     Formats to choose from
•     Brief Description Format
•     Bulleted Outline Format
•     Conversational Format
•     Narrative Format
•     When to choose a format.
•     Tools
•     CASE tools
•     Reviewing Use Cases
•     Style
•     Style Guides

Chapter 8 Miscellaneous Topics

•     Topics
•     Describing UI Wizards
•     Make sure that the system is included
•     Make sure that the user is included
•     Wrong goal levels
•     Make the use case easy to read
•     Collect multiple pieces of data
•     Do not forget the Exception Flows (failure scenarios)
•     Stay away from internal system details
•     Preconditions should be established by the system
•     Proper use of UML
•     CRUD Use Cases
•     Contain the explosion
•     Example - CRUD Use Case Specification
•     Example - CRUD Use Case Specification (cont d)

Chapter 9 Supplementary Requirements 

•     Topics
•     What are supplementary Requirements
•     Example of supplementary specifications
•     Example of supplementary specifications (cont d)
•     Brief outline.
•     Functionality
•     Non-functional requirements
•     Usability
•     Reliability
•     List Reliability requirements:
•     Performance
•     Supportability
•     Design Constraints
•     Practical Example of supplementary specifications
•     Purpose
•     Scope
•     References
•     Non-Functional - Course Registration System
•     Usability - Course Registration System
•     Reliability - Course Registration System
•     Performance - Course Registration System
•     Performance (cont d)
•     Supportability
•     Supportability (cont d)
•     Design Constraint - Course Registration System
•     Design Constraint (cont d)

Learning Path

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