CPRE-FL eLearning (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Foundation Level)

Program Outline: 

Introduction and Foundations

• Four major activities of RE
• Role of communication in RE
• Skills of a requirements engineer
• Three kinds of requirements
• Role of quality requirements

System and System Context

• Understand System context, Relevant environment and Irrelevant environment
• Sources of the requirements
• Sync of the requirements

Requirements Elicitation

• Requirements sources
• Significance of requirements sources and consequences of missing requirements sources
• The most important information of the stakeholder documentation
• Principles in dealing with stakeholders (stakeholder rights and duties)
• Using the content and significance of the Kano model
• Influencing factors for the choice of elicitation techniques
• Advantages and disadvantages of elicitation techniques - survey, creativity techniques, document centric techniques, observation techniques and supporting techniques

Requirements Documentation

• Key reasons for requirements documentation
• Three perspectives of functional requirements
• Advantages and disadvantages of natural language requirements documentation
• The most important model-based requirements documentation form
• The advantages of mixed form of requirements documentation
• The advantages of standardized document structures
• One widespread document structures
• Important points for a tailored standard structure
• Activities building on requirements documents
• Using quality criteria for requirements documents
• Using quality criteria for requirements
• Most important style rules for requirements
• Using contents and importance of a glossary
• Using rules for handling the glossary

Natural Language Requirements Documentation

• Five transformation processes in the perception and writing of natural language and their consequences on the formulation of requirements
• Five steps for formulating requirements using a requirements template

Model Based Requirements Documentation

• “Model” and the properties of models
• Elements of a conceptual modelling language
• Advantages of requirements models
• Importance of goals in requirements engineering
• Two types of goal decomposition
• Modelling and using of goal relationships as and/or trees
• Modelling of and using use case diagrams
• Specification of and using use case specifications
• Three perspectives on requirements
• Data perspective on requirements
• Entity relationship diagrams and UML class diagrams
• Functional perspective on requirements
• Data flow diagrams and UML activity diagrams
• Behavioral perspective on requirements
• Using UML state charts

Requirements validation and negotiation

• Significance of validating requirements
• Significance of conflicts with regard to requirements
• Three quality aspects of requirements
• Validation criteria for the quality aspects "content”, "documentation” and "agreement”
• Six principles for requirements validation
• Using the principles of requirements validation
• Techniques for requirements validation
• Using the validation techniques: commenting (expert opinion), inspection, walk-through, perspective-based reading, validation via prototypes and use of checklists
• Activities for requirements negotiation
• Types of requirements conflicts
• Various conflict resolution techniques
• Documentation for conflict resolution
• Checking and Reconciling Requirements
• Requirements Management
• Purpose and definition of attribute schemes
• Important attribute types for requirements
• Views on requirements
• Prioritizing requirements
• Techniques for prioritizing requirements
• Requirements traceability
• Classes of traceability relationships
• Representation for traceability relationships
• Versioning of requirements
• Formation of requirements configurations
• Formation requirements baselines
• Fequirements changes
• Functions and members of a Change Control Board
• Elements of a requirements change request
• Different classes of change requests
• Process to handle change requests

Tool Support

• Features of a requirements management tool
• Knowing the five aspects in the introduction of requirements engineering tools
• Knowing the seven views of requirements engineering tools
• Mock CPRE-FL Exam