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Software visual specification for requirement engineering education

Authors:

Fauziah binti Zainuddin,

Ruzaini bin Abdullah Arshah,

Rozlina binti MohamadAuthors Info & Claims

IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

Pages 235 - 240

https://doi.org/10.1145/3306500.3306532

Published: 10 January 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Requirement engineering course is perceived as an important course that become one of compulsory courses to be thought to Software Engineering graduates. However, Requirement Engineering Education (REE) is suffering from difficulty in content delivery (lecturer) and learning (student) due to the nature of Requirement Engineering theoretical and diversity of knowledge especially in teaching the student how to specify the requirement. In order to overcome this problem, software visualization approach is introduced in learning requirement engineering course focus on specifying the requirements. A control experiment was conducted to study the applicability of the approach. Based on the analysis of the survey data, the proposed approach seems able to give positive impact to the quality of overall requirement specification.

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Software visual specification for requirement engineering education
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction

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IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

January 2019

469 pages

ISBN:9781450366021

DOI:10.1145/3306500

Conference Chairs:
Kuan-Chou Chen
Purdue University Northwest
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University of Alberta, Canada

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Tiwari SRathore S(2022)Understanding general concepts of requirements engineering through design thinking: An experimental study with studentsComputer Applications in Engineering Education10.1002/cae.2255030:6(1683-1700)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22550
Taib AZainuddin FRahmah M(2021)Integrating Psychology Approach into Course Advisory System Framework for Higher Education Institution2021 International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management (ICSECS-ICOCSIM)10.1109/ICSECS52883.2021.00036(161-166)Online publication date: Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSECS52883.2021.00036

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