CSC340 Requirements Engineering Fall 2005 http www cs toronto edu sme CSC340F General Information Instructor Steve Easterbrook Bahen Center BA5234 e mail sme cs toronto edu Tutors Sotirios Liaskos liaskos cs Lin Mei lmei cs Jennifer Horkoff jenhork cs Papagelis Manos papaggel cs tutorial room BA2179 tutorial room BAB025 tutorial room MP118 tutorial room MP134 Lectures Tues 10am and Thurs 10am MS2172 Tutorials Fri 9am one of BA2179 BAB025 MP118 or MP134 Office hours Mondays 11am and Thursdays 2pm in BA5234 Assignments Students work in teams of 3 for all assignments Recommended Texts Textbook Easterbrook S M and Nuseibeh B A Fundamentals of Requirements Engineering Not yet published Draft chapters will be available from time to time on the course website Supplementary Texts Fowler M Scott K UML Distilled third edition Addison Wesley 2003 Course Prerequisites To take this course you must have completed CSC207 Software Design and either CSC236 Intro to theory of computation or CSC240 enriched version of 236 Students who haven t completed the prerequisite should discuss their case with the instructor Attendance Attendance at lectures is mandatory Much material and interpretation is covered during lectures that is not present in textbooks or notes Experience has shown that your final exam grade is highly correlated with lecture attendance Your individual TA will be grading your assignments Therefore it is wise to attend tutorials as well and seek help from your TA The tutorial sections will be covering background material and going into greater depth with worked out examples To understand what your particular TA expects to see in an assignment you should attend the tutorials Tutorials Each tutorial group will consist of complete teams The first tutorial on Friday September 16 will be used to form teams If you have a team or teammate already make sure you go to the same tutorial room If you don t go to a tutorial according to the following formula BA2179 birthday between January 1 and March 31 BAB025 birthday between April 1 and June 30 MP118 birthday between July 1 and September 30 MP134 birthday between October 1 and December 31 Assessment There are four practical assignment and two exams as follows Task Topic Assignment1 10 Inspection Report Assignment2 15 Feasibility Study Midterm test 20 First half of course 50 min Assignment3 10 Requirements Models Assignment4 10 Requirements Specification Final exam 35 All course material 2 hrs Due Date October 7 November 4 November 10 November 25 December 9 TBD The assignments are all team assignments Each team will submit a single report for each assignment All members of a team will receive the same grade for the assignment except in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the instructor Detailed instruction on the content of each assignment will be handed out during the term Due dates for the assignments are firm Assignments must be submitted in person within ten minutes of the start of the tutorial on the specified date There will be a 10 deduction for late assignments for each day of delay to a maximum of 7 days assignments will not be accepted beyond that point Saturdays Sundays and holidays count when calculating late days Please note that the TAs and the instructor will not answer any questions relating to assignments within the 24 hour period prior to the deadline If you have questions about the grade your assignment received please ask your TA However all requests for remarking must be made to the instructor The end of term exam constitutes 35 of the course grade Each student must achieve a minimum mark of 30 on the exam in order to pass the course Teamworking All assignments will be done in teams of three If a team member drops the course he or she should immediately notify his or her fellow team members also the tutor or the instructor Each student will have an account at the CDF UNIX lab Warnings Do not use another team s solution to avoid problems discuss with fellow students from other teams only general approaches to assignment solutions do not take notes during such discussions Do not interfere with the operation of CDF computers fellow students files accounts or programs Punishment for violations to these rules can range from zero in a course assignment to expulsion from the University Extensions to assignment deadlines will only be granted in the case of documented medical emergencies See http www utoronto ca health forms forms htm
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