SWE609: Advanced Topics in Software Requirements Engineering

This courses focuses on advanced software requirements models, methods, techniques, and issues. Topics covered include notations and models for requirements specification; methods, tools and processes for software requirements elicitation, analysis, and specification; quality assurance techniques and quality metrics for requirements; formal versus non-formal specifications, patterns and anti-patterns. Part of the course will be devoted to reading, presentation, and discussion of relevant research papers in this area.