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Courses and Sections:

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

We have 24 2-hour meetings scheduled over which we need to meet 36 hours, where an hour is defined as 55 minutes (because we meet from 10:30-12:20 not 12:30).

So basically, we meet 18 times.

Some dates are canceled due to my traveling. So far only my travel is accounted for. That cancellation makes the Canada Day Weekend longer. See the dates around 1 July in the lecture schedule for details. Some time after the first meeting, I will try to account for student travel.

Tentative Schedule

Instructor:

• Daniel Berry, DC 3329, No telephone, dberry ATT uwaterloo DOTT ca

Evaluation of Instructor at the End of the Term:

E-Mail from Instructor:

Highest Level Course Outline:

Course Times and Locations:

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 10:300am--12:20am in DC 2585

Readings:

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

Workload:

1. Do one of
   • do some project, e.g., an experiment with volunteering subjects,
   • do some research, e.g., solving some open RE problem,
   • explore RE issues in your own research area,
   • do a case study, e.g., describe an RE experience at some job in the past, or even now, from which we can learn something, or
   • research a topic, i.e., read a bunch of research papers on a topic.
2. Write a conference-sized paper about the project or research.
3. Give a 25 to 50-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 report topic approved by the prof before going too far into it, to make sure that it will be acceptable.

The due date for the project or report is Friday 4 August.

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 I see they will be given. As time goes on, I may change the order. Also as time goes on, I 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, I 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 I am showing on the screen during the lecture. My lecture may have material that I do not have the legal right to distribute multiple copies of. It may have also an exercise that I want to do alive in class with your help. I do not want you to be able to see such material until I have finished.

Underneath the header Additional Materials OR Deliverable Details, you will find some additional reading or viewing material.

                 

Date	Day & Lecturer OR Topic & Main Slides	Additional Materials
9 May	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	5 Minute Description of Course	First Day's Handout and Course Requirements
	The Requirements Iceberg	The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography
11 May	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	The Requirements Iceberg	The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography
16 May	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	The Requirements Iceberg	The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography
18 May	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	The Requirements Iceberg	The Requirements Iceberg Bibliography
	RE Reference Model
23 May	Tuesday NO LECTURE: Monday Class Schedule
25 May	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	RE Reference Model
30 May	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	RE Reference Model	My Self-Administered Hair Cut During the Covid-19 Lockdown: Real-Life, Small-Scale Requirements Engineering
1 June	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	Scope Determined (D) and Scope Determining (G) Requirements: A New Categorization of Functional Requirements	Supplemental Slides for Main Slides
6 June	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	Understanding the Relation Between Recall, Precision, F-Measure, and Summarization for RE Tools	Evaluation of Tools for Hairy Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering Tasks
	FPvsPandS	SPgraphNoScale
8 June	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	The Prehistory and History of RE as Seen by Me	The Prehistory and History of RE as Seen by Me: FULL SEQUENCE OF SLIDES
13 June	Tuesday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	Emotion, Values, and Beliefs in RE
15 June	Thursday Lecture: Daniel Berry
	The Four Levels of Requirements Engineering in and about Dynamic Adaptive Systems
20 June	NO LECTURE: to eliminate 2 hours from the 48
22 June	NO LECTURE: to eliminate 2 hours from the 48
27 June	NO LECTURE: to eliminate 2 hours from the 48
29 June	NO LECTURE: Daniel Berry out of town, eliminates 2 hours from the 48
	If this is your only class on Thursday, and you have no class on Friday, you can take off for the Canada Day weekend after Wednesday's classes!
4 July	NO LECTURE: to eliminate 2 hours from the 48
	If this is your only class on Tuesday, you can come back from the Canada Day weekend in time for Wednesday's classes!
6 July	NO LECTURE: to eliminate 2 hours from the 48
11 July	Tuesday Lecture: 3 Students	Ale Luz, Lufan Wang, Belen Bonilla
	Ale Luz: Intermittent Exotropia Requirements Engineering
	Lufan Wang: Requirements Engineering for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Finance-Trading Application
	Belen Bonilla: Requirements Change Management in Agile Software Development
13 July	Thursday Lecture: 3 Students	Prithwish Jana, Aryan Hadaddy, Funmi Olaiya
	Prithwish Jana: Requirements Engineering for ML-based Source Code Translation
	Aryan Hadaddy: A Food Ordering Website
	Funmi Olaiya: Requirements Engineering is the Compass that Guides Successful Solutions: An Engineering Experience Report
18 July	Tuesday Lecture: 3 Students	'Tunde Oladipo, Favour Kio, Prasanna Kumar
	'Tunde Oladipo: Innovating in the Financial Industry: An RE Perspective
	Favour Kio: Stepping up the Prompt Game: Requirements Engineering as a Catalyst for Effective Code Generation
	Prasanna Kumar: RE of a Solution to the Problem of Misuse of Cryptographic APIs
20 July	Thursday Lecture: 3 Students	Susan Esho, Elly Khodaei, Muhammad
	Susan Esho: Enhancing User Experience through Effective Requirement Engineering for User Interfaces
	Elly Khodaei: Requirement Engineering for Malware Detection using Hardware Performance Counters
	Muhammad: Requirements Specification for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Applications
25 July	Tuesday Lecture: 2 Students	Deborah Etsenake, Mofe Adeyemi
	Deborah Etsenake: Rock the Software Stage: The Electrifying Band Chemistry of ChatGPT and Humans in User Requirements
	Mofe Adeyemi: Requirements Engineering for Addressing Toxicity in Language Models
	How to Evaluate the Course Prof
27 July	Thursday Lecture: 2 Students and Daniel Berry	Hauton Tsang, Sky Qiao
	Hauton Tsang: Requirements Framework for Video Game Console Security
	Sky Qiao: Requirement Engineering of Machine Learning --- Enhancing Evaluation of Machine Learning Models
	Requirements for Monitoring Inattention of the Responsible Human in an Autonomous Vehicle: The Recall and Precision Tradeoff
1 August	Tuesday Lecture:Daniel Berry and 1 Student	Joseph Scott
	Joseph Scott: Requirements Engineering Retrospectives on Machine --Learning-- Learners and Verification
	Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence: What Is a Requirements Specification for an Artificial Intelligence?	Origins of RE for AI: A Hot Topic as Viewed by an RE Alter Kaker
	Full Slides: Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence: What Is a Requirements Specification for an Artificial Intelligence?

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