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Use of Inspection Techniques in Requirements Engineering Instruction	Wednesday Presentation

Requirements validation is often not adequately covered by a traditional software engineering curriculum in the university. This presentation describes two experiments conducted in graduate-level requirements engineering courses at Mississippi State University to provide students a real-world experience in requirements validation. The experiments made use of the N-fold inspection method, in which multiple teams of students inspect the same requirements document then meet together to discuss their findings. Students used N-fold techniques in an ad hoc manner compared to a Perspective Based Review (PBR) technique. This procedure allows the students to not only practice their reviewing skills, but also to strengthen their communication and collaboration skills. At the conclusion of the exercise, the students were given the opportunity to provide qualitative and quantitative feedback. The results of this study suggest that the techniques employed by this class and the resulting defect detection could be useful in general during the requirements validation process. This was partially presented in a CrossTalk article in the January 2008 issue.

Wednesday - April 30, 2008 2:25 - 3:10	Track 2 Salon H

*Speakers:*
Dr. Rayford B . Vaughn Jr.

*Presentation:* *Not Available*

Use of Inspection Techniques in Requirements Engineering Instruction