ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Thu 18 Apr 2024 14:45 - 15:00 at Glicínia Quartin - Requirements 1 Chair(s): Liliana Pasquale

Requirements engineering is a key skill in systems and software engineering. Educating students in the different forms and concepts of requirements engineering (e.g., traditional versus agile) is essential to prepare them for any technical job. However, requirements-engineering education can be challenging, particularly if it is not structured around a real-world project, and thus taught only conceptually. Unfortunately, when designing lectures, educators face pedagogical, technological, and content-related challenges, such as practice-orientation, student motivation, prior knowledge of students, or even emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we report our experiences of integrating a novel pedagogical idea into a typical requirements-engineering course that builds on the increased use of multimedia communication in all parts of society: we asked students to create videos to document and communicate requirements of diverse products. Overall, we report (i) the general design of the course; (ii) why, how, and in what form we introduced video-creation tasks; as well as (iii) the students’ feedback and our experiences. Due to mostly positive feedback and the rising demand for multimedia competences in industry, we perceive the introduction of the video-creation tasks as a success for developing key skills and improving students’ motivation to learn about requirements engineering. We provide an overview of our lessons learned and discuss their implications to enable other educators to integrate similar tasks in their courses, while avoiding the pitfalls we faced.

Thu 18 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
ReFAIR: Toward a Context-Aware Recommender for Fairness Requirements Engineering
Research Track
Carmine Ferrara University of Salerno, Francesco Casillo Università di Salerno, Carmine Gravino University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Analyzing and Debugging Normative Requirements via Satisfiability CheckingACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Nick Feng University of Toronto, Lina Marsso University of Toronto, Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Yesugen Baatartogtokh Smith College, Reem Ayad University of Toronto, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello University of Toronto, Beverley Townsend University of York, Isobel Standen University of York, Ioannis Stefanakos University of York, Calum Imrie University of York, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues University of Brasília, Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
14:30
15m
Talk
Teaching Digital Accessibility to Industry Professionals using the Community of Practice framework: An Experience Report
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
14:45
15m
Talk
An Experience Report on Using Video-Creation Tasks in Requirements-Engineering Education
Software Engineering Education and Training
Richard May Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Johanna Daher Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology, Thomas Leich Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
15:00
15m
Talk
Exploring the Need of Accessibility Education in the Software Industry: Insights from a Survey of Software Professionals in India
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
15:15
7m
Talk
ValidGen: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Validation Scripts to Support Rapid Requirements Validation
Demonstrations
Hongyue Pan BeiHang Uviversity, Yilong Yang Beihang University