The Role of Conducting Stakeholder Meeting in Requirements Engineering Techniques

One of the important challenges of Requirements Engineering education and training is how to prepare students for requirements elicitation activities with limited time and resources typically available in large undergraduate classes at tertiary institutions. In the last five years, we have been experimenting with variety of teaching and learning techniques to address this challenge. In this paper we describe our most recent effort in addressing this issue by redesigning our RE subject through a new format for elicitation and specification activities. Our findings suggest that the combination of role playing techniques and applying a systematic process for these activities are effective in achieving the expected learning outcomes.

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