This course is part of the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization

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Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

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As requirements are being gathered and prioritized, they also need to be documented. In Diagrammatic Notations and Software Requirements Specification Writing, we discuss and practice the process of turning requirements into something readable to the customers at a high level, and the developers.  When a designer or developer reads your document, they should be able to understand the overall idea, the scope, the domain, the resources, the expectations, and why alternative choices are not selected. To create a document in this way, you use a balance between storytelling (with pictures!) and complex diagrams.

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Kristen Walcott-Justice

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Beginning to Write an SRS Document

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 39 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Beginning Diagramming

4 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 17 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

3 videos

Diagramming- Adding Use/Misuse/Abuse Cases6mContext and Problem Diagrams3mFrame Diagrams6m

5 readings

Diagramming-Adding Use/Misuse/Abuse Cases -Slides20mMisuse Cases: Use Cases with Hostile Intent1hMisuse and abuse cases: getting past the positive30mContext and Problem | Frame Diagrams - Slides15mRelating software requirements and architectures using problem frames1h

1 practice exercise

Use/Misuse Cases and High Level Diagramming30m

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Lower-Level Diagramming

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 18 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Tracing Events

4 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 24 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

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About the Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications Specialization

This specialization is intended for software engineers, development and product managers, testers, QA analysts, product analysts, tech writers, and security engineers. Even if you have experience in the requirements realm, this course will expand your knowledge to include new viewpoints, development styles, techniques and tools.

For anyone seeking a graduate degree, certificate, or professional degree in computer science, these courses will additionally give you a broad understanding of how requirements engineering is performed and help you get a first foot forward into your upcoming careers. The Software Requirements specialization focuses on traditional software requirements elicitation and writing techniques, while also looking at requirements from a security standpoint. In traditional methods, non-functional requirements, such as security, are often ignored overall. In this specialization, students will be introduced to ways of eliciting requirements from stakeholders, how to analyze these requirements, conduct risk mitigation and analysis, prioritize requirements, document, and bring security concerns into the software lifecycle early on.

Requirements Engineering: Secure Software Specifications

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