Teaching requirements engineering in the small: an under-graduate course experience

In this paper a short (16 hours) newly designed course on practical software engineering is described. This course has been designed according to specific objectives (i.e. orientation to the practice, generality and adequacy to the current software engineering community trends) and focused on the requirements elicitation, documentation, and analysis topics. In the course an innovative tool for natural language requirements analysis has been used for the first time with educational purpose. The outcomes from this pilot experience are discussed along with the lessons learned.