Teaching Model-based Requirements Engineering to Industry Professionals: An Experience Report

TL;DR

This paper reports on a training program designed to teach industry professionals model-based requirements engineering, sharing lessons learned and guidelines for effective course design in industrial contexts.

Contribution

It provides practical insights and guidelines for educators to effectively teach model-based requirements engineering to industry professionals.

Findings

Lessons learned from designing and conducting the training.

Guidelines for effective requirements engineering education.

Application of training material in professional practice.

Abstract

The use of conceptual models to foster requirements engineering has been proposed and evaluated as beneficial for several decades. For instance, goal-oriented requirements engineering or the specification of scenarios are commonly done using conceptual models. Bringing such model-based requirements engineering approaches into industrial practice typically requires industrial training. In this paper, we report lessons learned from a training program for teaching industry professionals model-based requirements engineering. Particularly, we as educators and learners report experiences from designing the training program, conducting the actual training, and applying the instructed material in our day-to-day work. From these findings we provide guidelines for educators designing requirements engineering courses for industry professionals.