Experiences with teaching EARS to first-year software engineering students

Paper in proceeding, 2018

The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) was introduced to provide an easy way to structure natural language requirements. Although used in practice, there is still a need to understand best practices in teaching EARS. The EARS method was introduced briefly to first-semester students in a Software Engineering and Management program. In this short paper I report my experiences, mainly by analyzing assignments. I use my experiences to suggest improvements to the lectures and assignments.