Experiences with teaching EARS to first-year software engineering students

Paper i 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.