Experiences with Teaching EARS to First-Year Software Engineering Students

The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) was introduced to provide an easy way to structure natural language requirements. Although used in practice, there is still a need to understand best practices in teaching EARS. The EARS method was introduced briefly to first-semester students in a Software Engineering and Management program. In this short paper I report my experiences, mainly by analyzing assignments. I use my experiences to suggest improvements to the lectures and assignments.

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