The Software Engineering Workshop is a series of courses that span the first three years of the Software Engineering program. The course series will provide an opportunity to work in small teams on substantial, realistic projects, covering most phases of the software production life cycle. The SE Workshop stream also provides an opportunity to apply the techniques and methods covered in other courses of the course. Under guidance from staff, the intention of this series is to enable students to learn by reflective practice. Whatever steps are taken students should become aware of what they are doing, and reflect on the consequences. Each course in the series will involve group project work, system development, presentations, and reporting. This is the first course in the series and will contain:

Each group will complete a domain analysis and a requirements analysis for a project. Each group will: examine similar systems; interview users or potential users of the system; develop a requirements document; validate the requirements by prototyping.