Communication and traceability game: a way to improve requirements elicitation process teaching

Abstract

Requirements elicitation process is important to guarantee the quality of software applications. In software engineering, requirements elicitation process has been taught by means of traditional methods. Games have been used to improve teaching of some issues in software engineering, but elicitation has not been the center of this way of teaching. As a way to deal with problems in requirements elicitation process teaching, we create in this paper "Communication and Traceability Game" and we summarize the results of applying this game to several groups of students.

Keywords

• requirements elicitation process
• teaching by games
• communication
• traceability
• active learning