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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.6

688 reviews

Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
9 hours to complete
Learn at your own pace
92%
Most learners liked this course

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This course is part of the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course

In Software Requirements Elicitation for Secure Software Development, we're going to discuss the overall software requirements process as it applies in waterfall, spiral, and agile models. You'll learn about each of these processes and your goals as a software requirements analyst. This is not an easy task! Who do you talk to, when, and what kind of knowledge are you trying to obtain, in any software life cycle? How do you handle obstacles as you go?

These are the questions we will focus on answering in this specialization.

Software Requirements are a vital part of the Software Development Lifecycle. While there are many ways to go about collecting and recording requirements, the cost of bad requirements is high. Here we discuss what Software Requirements Specifications are and some challenges in writing them well.

What's included

5 videos4 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

5 videos•Total 27 minutes
  • About the Lecturer: Hi!•6 minutes
  • Introduction to the Specialization•6 minutes
  • The Software Requirement Specification Process•7 minutes
  • Cost of Bad Requirements•4 minutes
  • Getting Started- "I want THIS"•3 minutes
4 readings•Total 65 minutes
  • Get help and meet other learners in this course. Join your discussion forums!•5 minutes
  • Software Requirement Specification Process - Slides•25 minutes
  • Cost of Bad Requirements - Slides•25 minutes
  • Getting Started: I want THIS - Slides•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Software Specification Process•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Learning from a Customer at the Start•10 minutes

We need to figure out what the customer wants. And moreso- what they need! How do you develop a relationship with you customers and learn about the overall domain and potential solutions? Here you will learn about the requirements engineering process, what it entails, how to develop a relationship with your customer, and some tips to succeed early on.

What's included

2 videos3 readings1 assignment

2 videos•Total 11 minutes
  • Introduction to Requirements Engineering•6 minutes
  • Building Requirements•5 minutes
3 readings•Total 85 minutes
  • Introduction to Requirements Engineering - Slides•30 minutes
  • Building Requirements - Slides•25 minutes
  • Requirements Elicitation Towards the Unknown Unknowns•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Requirements Engineering•30 minutes

Not all requirements documents are created equally- if at all (formally). How you work with requirements partially depends on the software lifecycle used. Here we learn about the different software development lifecycles and discuss how they affect the requirements we produce.

What's included

3 videos3 readings1 assignment

3 videos•Total 15 minutes
  • The Software Lifecycle•6 minutes
  • Different Lifecycle Models•5 minutes
  • Hybrid Model/Iterative Lifecycle Approaches•3 minutes
3 readings•Total 80 minutes
  • Software Lifecycle | Lifecycle Models | Hybrid Model - Slides•10 minutes
  • Software Development Lifecycles- Approaches and Benefits•30 minutes
  • Agile Software Development- The Business of Innovation•40 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Software Lifecycles•30 minutes

To increase flexibility to change in software development, the agile lifecycle was produced. The agile process much changes how we deal with requirements. We discuss these challenges and your role as a requirements analyst. We also begin to analyze the types of statements that you want to form as you elicit data to move towards clarity.

What's included

8 videos4 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

8 videos•Total 43 minutes
  • Challenges and Your Goals•7 minutes
  • Lines and Cats- What we can learn•8 minutes
  • Who, when, why, and how?•5 minutes
  • Requirement Engineering Statement Types•4 minutes
  • Requirement Challenges•4 minutes
  • The Analyst - Who and What?•7 minutes
  • Steps to Effective Knowledge Acquisition - Identifying Stakeholders•3 minutes
  • Obstacles in Data Handling•5 minutes
4 readings•Total 80 minutes
  • The Agile Model - Slides•20 minutes
  • Lines and Cats - Slides•20 minutes
  • WWWH | Requirement Engineering Statement | Requirement Challenges - Slides•20 minutes
  • The Analyst | Identifying Stakeholder | Obstacles - Slides•20 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
  • Goals and Models•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 30 minutes
  • Lines and Cats- An interesting look at requirements gathering•30 minutes

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Reviewed on Oct 3, 2020

Very good coverage of the required contents. Very well explained by giving examples.

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Reviewed on Jan 3, 2020

Clear and well presented, with some interesting readings. Could benefit from an interactive game/quiz/tool or two, perhaps. Anyway, very good overall.

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Reviewed on Aug 23, 2020

It's easy to start coding, but difficult to organize ideas. Coding is not the start of software development, and this course teaches it.

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