Claimer: The published outline at https://outline.uwaterloo.ca/viewer/view/n9vesd gives all the details about the course that are not expected to change during the entire term, such as the personnel; an overall description of the course; general, term-independent instructions; course, School, Faculty, and University policies; and the due date of the final report. The details that change according to the class's progress through the course materials, which include the lecture schedule as it happened, the lecture slides, URLs to newly discovered relevant materials, and the archive of all e-mail sent by the professor to the students, are found here.

The only information that is at both places is the note about gender-non-specific singular pronouns, the section titled "Class Schedule", and the section titled "Instructor".

To Go Directly to the Lecture Schedule

Course and Section:

CS846 is Advanced Topics in Software Engineering, a graduate seminar. Section 1 is "Advanced Topics in Requirements Engineering".

Class Schedule

• Section I, CS846

  • Lecture: Tuesdays: 8:30am--9:50am, in DC 2568

  • Lecture: Thursdays: 8:30am--9:50am in DC 2568

Instructor:

• Daniel Berry, DC 3329, No telephone, dberry ATT uwaterloo DOTT ca
  Office hours: by appointment made by e-mail,
  but feel free to knock on his room door, if the door is closed.
  Berry says, "The reason I have no telephone is that I am nearly deaf. I do not sign, but I do read lips. So I cannot use a voice-only telephone. I can use a video communication medium if the bandwidth of the connection is high enough that the image gets updated at the frequency of television or movies and thus, the lip movement is smooth enough to be decipherable."
  An appointment can be via Zoom.

  Please send to Berry e-mail that you want to meet in person or via Zoom, along with some possible times, and he will reply with one of those times or an alternative proposal. When you and he agree on a time, if the meeting is to be via Zoom, he will send you a Zoom invitation.

Evaluation of Instructor at the End of the Term

Archive of E-mail Sent to Class:

Click here for an archive of the e-mail sent to the entire class.

Highest Level Course Outline:

Readings:

No textbook. Notes are provided at this Web site or are handed out in class.

Workload:

1. Do some project or research, such as
   • testing some RE-relevant hypothesis empirically.
   • solving some open RE problem,
   • exploring RE issues in your own research area,
   • describing an RE experience at some job in the past, or even now, from which we can learn something, or
   • systematically reviewing an RE-relevant topic, i.e., read a bunch of research papers on the topic.
2. Write a conference-sized paper, about 10 single spaced pages long, about the project or research.
3. Give a 30 to 60-minute talk (the time is depending on the class size) based on the paper so that the whole class benefits from it, and the prof has one less lecture to do :-).

Please get your project or research topic approved by the prof before going too far into it, to make sure that it will be acceptable.

The due date for the paper is Wednesday, 9 December at 5:00pm.

Possible Topics for Instructor:

Possible Topics by Instructor

Possible Topics for Students:

Possible Topics by Students

Lecture Schedule

The list below represents the sequence of lectures as we see they will be given. As time goes on, we may change the order. Also as time goes on, we will see how they divide themselves up into dates.

If a topic has hot links, then the slides for the topic are available for downloading. If there are no hot links on a topic, the slides are not ready yet, and will be later, we hope, at least one day before the lecture.

The title itself is a hot link to a copy of its slides in Acrobat form (.pdf). These slides may not be exactly what we are showing on the screen during the lecture. The lecture may have material that we do not have the legal right to distribute multiple copies of. It may have also an exercise that we want to do alive in class with your help. We do not want you to be able to see such material until we have finished.

Underneath the header Additional Materials or in additional rows, you will find some additional reading or viewing material.

 

Date	Day & Lecturer OR Topic & Slides	Additional Materials
10 September	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	5 Minute Description of Course
	The Requirements Iceberg	The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography
15 September	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
17 September	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
22 September	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
24 September	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
29 September	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
1 October	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
6 October	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
8 October	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
13 October	Tuesday NO LECTURE: Reading Week!!!
15 October	Thursday NO LECTURE: Reading Week!!!
20 October	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
22 October	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
27 October	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
29 October	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
3 November	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
5 November	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
10 November	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
12 November	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
17 November	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
19 November	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
24 November	Tuesday Lecture: Students
26 November	Thursday Lecture: Students
1 December	Tuesday Lecture: Students
3 December	Thursday Lecture: Students
8 December	Tuesday Lecture: Students

This page is at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~dberry/ATRE/index.shtml