Requirements Engineering I Assignments

The Requirements Engineering I course includes two homework assignments, which are based on a case study. Students work on the assignments in groups and submit their work by the given deadlines. Groups organize themselves in OLAT.

The assignments will be discussed in class after the respective submission deadlines.

Working on the assignments and the assignment discussions are an integral part of the course. The assignments deepen and complement the material included in the lectures. This way, they enable students to apply basic Requirements Engineering knowledge and skills on a practical case.

Parallel attendance of the couse lectures in Requirements Engineering I.

Students who are enrolled in the course can download the materials from OLAT. While the slides are publicly available, the homework case study and assignments are not. Therefore, they are available only in OLAT.

Note that it is not allowed to pass or make available  the assignments or the case study to anybody who is not enrolled in the course.

Students work on the assignments in groups of four. Every group submits one joint solution. Groups organize themselves in OLAT. If the number of enrolled students is no multiple of four, we might end up with some groups of three or one group of five students.

In order to give the students enough time to work on the assignments, there will be no class in the weeks after the publication of an assignment. I.e., on Mon Oct 28, 2024 and Mon Nov 18, 2024 there will be no classes. The groups are encouraged to meet in these “no-class” slots and jointly work on the assignments.

• The solutions must be submitted electronically by the deadlines stated above, in a single pdf file, to glinz@ifi.uzh.ch with subject Assignment_x_group_<group number>.
  Do not submit your work in OLAT!
• <group number> is the number of the group in OLAT. "x" stands for the number of the assignment.
• Example: Assignment_1_group_07
• Every group submits one joint solution. Submissions must be in English.
• Name your pdf file as follows: Assignment_x_group_<group number>.pdf
• Example: Assignment_1_group_04.pdf
• On top of the first page of your pdf file, specify the group name and the names, surnames, email addresses and matriculation numbers (Matrikelnummer) of the group members.
• For each task or sub-task in the assignment, specify which group member(s) has/have contributed to the solution.

In order to obtain the credits for the course, both assigments must be passed.

Pass criteria are:

• Submission of work by the given deadlines,
• Conforming to instructions about working on the assignments and who did what, and
• Having worked on all tasks seriously.

Assignments are neither corrected nor graded. The course grade is based entirely on the result of the written exam.

Note that letting somebody else do the work or letting a GenAI generate the submitted work is not considered as “Having worked on all tasks seriously”.