Tutorial: Boosting requirements analysis and validation skills through feedback-enabled semantic prototyping

Learning requirements analysis and validation is very hard. Experienced requirements engineers and business analysts manage to mentally picture (i.e. simulate) the future information system in their mind while analyzing and validation requirements. This skill is very hard to achieve by junior requirements engineers. This tutorial presents a novel, award winning and scientifically proven method [1-17] that boosts the learning achievements in requirements analysis and validation by means of feedback-enabled rapid prototyping allowing to
“learn by experiencing” by means of:
1. visualizing solution-oriented requirements which enables semantic conformance checking with domain experts by serving as a simulation instrument to communicate scenarios with users in a fast and easy way
2. moving the testing of a prospective system into the requirements engineering phase;
3. additionally, allowing less experienced analysts detecting own specification errors such as conflicting, wrongly captured or missing requirements, etc.
The learning perspective is additionally enhanced by providing automated cognitive feedback linking prototype-based test results into their causes in formalized requirements. This tutorial is targeted towards a broad audience:
faculty staff, professional industry educators, practitioners, researchers, students. Participants are welcome however not required to bring any devices themselves. The material used for the course will be available to the participants as a free download. All attendees will get a free USB with software, examples and the material used during the tutorial.