Teaching Requirements Engineering for All: A Preliminary Report

摘要

In this paper we discuss a Software Engineering Without Programming course we taught in the Winter 2020 quarter at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. We designed this course to target students outside of computing majors, and taught it with the purpose of getting them familiarized with the software development process. To provide software development support, we taught this course in concert with a traditional Software Engineering I course for Software Engineering majors.In this paper we concentrate on reporting our experiences related specifically to the teaching early stages of software development: development of software product vision, and requirements gathering. We discuss the topics covered in the course, the activities students participated in and the artifacts they created. Additionally, we report the results of two surveys (one conducted before the course started, and one conducted during Week 8 of the course) detailing student attitudes towards software development and the course material.