Software Engineering - Requirements & Design Fundamentals
The course module comprehensively delves into Requirements Engineering and Software Design, focusing on understanding user needs and software architecture. It emphasizes the critical processes involved in eliciting, analyzing, managing requirements, and the role of design principles and patterns in creating maintainable and scalable software. Key topics include the importance of requirements, activities in the engineering process, and the process of translating requirements into functional and non-functional specifications.
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What we have learnt
- Requirements Engineering is a continuous, systematic process critical to the software lifecycle.
- Effective elicitation, analysis, and management of requirements significantly impact project success and customer satisfaction.
- Modular design principles lead to maintainability, reusability, and robustness in software solutions.
Key Concepts
- -- Requirements Engineering
- A systematic discipline encompassing the discovery, documentation, analysis, validation, negotiation, and ongoing management of system requirements.
- -- Functional Requirements
- Describes the behaviors or services that the system must provide to the user or to other systems, specifying what the system does.
- -- NonFunctional Requirements
- Describes how well the system must perform its functions, as well as the quality characteristics it must possess.
- -- Modularity
- The principle of organizing a software system into smaller, self-contained units (modules) to reduce complexity and increase maintainability.
- -- Cohesion
- A measure of how closely related and focused the responsibilities of a single module are.
- -- Coupling
- A measure of the degree of interdependence between different modules, with lower coupling being more desirable.
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