About this course: Risk Analysis, Assessment, and Prioritization looks at how you can manage conflicts at system levels, but it can also be applied to lower level assessments. How do you manage and document conflict, along with alternatives? In analyzing alternatives, you must consider risks. In this course, we'll look into how to analyze risk, evaluate risk, document risks, and use this information for prioritization of requirements. Qualitative and Quantitative approaches will be covered.
Who is this class for: This is a graduate level class and can prove useful to those just entering the software engineering process, as well as those who have years of experience. Coding is not needed. Software engineers, managers, security engineers, technical writers, testers, and many more can learn much from these lessons in gaining a better understanding of how software requirements tie to your jobs. You will also gain extended views compared to the software processes your companies currently use. This specialization is a beginning course into Software Requirements and introduces fundamental software engineering comparisons, applied to the roles of the requirements analyst. Here we especially discuss analysis and prioritization of requirements with stakeholder assistance toward determining what should be included in your document of full requirements. This is also a course in the Engineering Secure Software Requirements Certificate, which can be used as a professional certificate or as a start toward further graduate studies in Computer Science or Software Engineering. It is recommended any learner of this course to have a good understanding or working knowledge of requirement elicitation as a prerequisite.
Created by:Â Â University of Colorado System
Taught by:Â Â Kristen Walcott-Justice, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 4 of 5 in the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Commitment | 4 weeks, 1-2 hours per week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Risk Analysis, Assessment and Prioritization
Once requirements have been somewhat/mostly determined, we next need to go carefully through our work. This involves analyzing risk, assessing alternative plans, and prioritizing. In this module, we examine how to begin documenting conflicts and generating conflict resolution.
3 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Video: Documenting Conflicts
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 1.1 Practice Quiz
- Video: Generating Conflict Resolution
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 1.2 Practice Quiz
- Leyendo: Introduction | Documenting Conflicts | Conflict Resolution - Slides
- Leyendo: Bringing Security into Risk Analysis
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Module 1 Discussion
Graded: Managing Conflicts
WEEK 2
Dealing with Risk
Risk goes far beyond security. Most non-functional requirements are part of risk analysis. In this lesson, we discuss different types of risks, how they can be identified, and how to visualize a causal linking of failures, causes, and consequences using risk trees and cut-set trees.
2 videos, 3 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Leyendo: A risk taxonomy proposal for software maintenance
- Leyendo: What is Risk? A taxonomy document
- Video: Risk and Cut-Set Trees
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 2 Practice Quiz
- Leyendo: What is a Risk? |Cut-Set Trees - Slides
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Module 2 Discussion
Graded: Dealing with Risk
WEEK 3
Controlling Risk
In writing use cases and scenarios, we'll discover risk in the interactions. Interactions may happen out of order, to quickly or slowly, or not occur at all. In risk assessment, we assess the likelihood of risks and their severity, the likelihood of consequences, and thus, attempt to control high-priority risks.
2 videos, 2 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Video: Risk Control and Countermeasures
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 3 Practice Quiz
- Leyendo: Software risk management: principles and practices
- Leyendo: Risk Assessment | Risk Control and Countermeasures - Slides
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Module 3 Discussion
Graded: Controlling Risk
WEEK 4
Incorporating Risk Management into Your Process
Many approaches can be used to incorporate risk management into your software requirements engineering process. One is Defect Detection Prevention (DDP). We can also analyze alternatives qualitatively and quantitatively. We discuss Defect Detection Prevention, Value Cost Prioritization, and the Analytic Hierarchal Process in this module and how these techniques can be scaled for every day use.
4 videos, 4 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Leyendo: Risk-Driven Revision of Requirements Models
- Video: Evaluating Alternatives
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 4.1 Practice Quiz
- Video: Quantitative Risk Prioritization: Analytic Hierarchic Process
- Leyendo: AHP using Excel
- Leyendo: Reducing the cost of AHP using Machine Learning
- Video: Risk Analysis, Assessment, and Prioritization Conclusions... and Reminders
- Cuestionario de práctica: Module 4.2 Practice Quiz
- Leyendo: Risk Management through Analysis, Assessment, Prioritization | Conclusions - Slides
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Module 4 Discussion
Graded: Risk Management
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