Experiences of using role playing andwiki in requirements engineering course projects

Teaching requirements engineering (RE) course is challenging for teachers and a bit of boring for students due to the lack of involvement to a real software development project. Role playing method has been introduced as an effective pedagogical approach that allows students to practise RE methods in a simulated project environment by playing different roles/stakeholders at RE phase. We employ role playing method with a wiki tool support in the RE course projects for the third-year bachelor students running in the academic year of 2009-2010. In this paper, we report our experiences gained in applying role playing method and the wiki tool according to the survey results from the students who participated this course. We believe that the lessons learned in our experiences will help other RE education and training practitioners to improve their RE course projects by using role playing method and appropriate RE tools.