Requirements Engineering: Software Engineering (Udemy.com)
Everything you need to know about software requirements: elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and management
Created by: Maged Koshty
Last updated September 2025
What you will learn
- Understand the need for requirements for software systems.
- Learn different types of requirements: functional, non-functional, system and process requirements
- Understand the requirements engineering processes.
- Learn different techniques to derived and elicit requirements
- Discuss requirements analyses and conceptual modeling
- Explain how requirements are classified
- Explain various techniques to document the requirements
- Overview software requirements verification and validation
- Provide an overview of requirements change management
How it compares
Against the other 518 rated Udemy courses in Software Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 41% of them
- Reviews4,579#39 of 519 by number of reviews
- Length5.3 hoursshorter than 59% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2025earlier than 51% of them
Course Description
"Requirements Engineering" Is the first course in our "Software Engineering" series.
If you are involved in software projects, especially large ones, you know that dealing with software requirements is the biggest problem the software practitioner faces in almost every project.
Not working effectively with software requirements could be the number one reason for many software projects' failures.
The course will discuss concepts for systematically establishing, defining, and managing the requirements for large, complex, changing, and software-intensive systems from technical, organizational, and management perspectives.
The course will consider the past, present, and future paradigms and methodologies in requirements engineering.
The course will cover informal, semi-formal, and formal approaches while balancing theory and practice.
The course will involve building models of both the requirements engineering process and the requirements engineering product, concerning both functional and non-functional goals/requirements/specifications, using a systematic decision-making process.
This course will help you manage the requirements aspect of software projects across various domains, sizes, technologies, platforms, and diverse practitioner and customer experiences. We need to acquire a set of tools, techniques, and best practices and learn when to use them to handle software requirements effectively and efficiently.
In this course, you will learn various techniques to capture requirements, analyze and validate requirements, control and manage requirements change requests, and deliver a solid requirements document.
You will understand the role of a requirements analyst in a software project, which will help you know what you need from them and what they need from you.
The course is based on the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (the SWEBOK) from IEEE. This course can also help you pass various software engineering exams provided by the IEEE. I will teach you everything you need to know, and I will answer any of your questions 24 x 7.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
4,579 Reviews
Maged Koshty
I'm the managing director of ExpertWave, a training and consulting company based in Cairo, Egypt with branches in Dubai, UAE and Ottawa Canada focusing on project management, software Engineering and people development.
I teach project management and software engineering in various universities, provide custom trainings to international companies worldwide and a guest speaker at many conferences and conventions worldwide.
I'm a software engineering certified instructor from IEEE, the only certified instructor in the Europe, middle east and Africa region and I am certified PMP, ISTQB CTAL, PMI-Agile certified.
I have over than twenty-five years of practical software experience in major multinational companies like Apple, Corel and ITWorx. Including over 15 years in management and consulting positions.
Given this wide experience and having seen professionals being successful, and not being successful. This gave me the opportunity to work with different kinds of people from different backgrounds and cultures facing many difficult situations through the years. It also gave me the exposure to various industries like communication, petroleum, architecture, medical and much more.
I have analyzed and prepared highly effective programs to help young and experienced professionals to be successful practitioners.
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Reviews
By Thavashini Moodley on 6/18/2026
Very valuable information and well aligned to my role.
By Felix Werner on 6/9/2026
am Anfang war ich skeptisch. Aber je länger es fortschritt wurde es immer besser. Hat meine Wissenslücken erheblich gefüllt. Passendes Wörding habe dadurch auch angeeignet. Schon bekannte intuitive Vorstellungen/Annahmen zu dem Thema bestätigt.
By Josh Goulet on 6/8/2026
Some of the quizzes seem to contradict or be unrelated to the course content.
By Miguel Rossier on 6/1/2026
So far so good. Good theoretical blueprint starting with basic fundamentals that anybody can understand.
By Geetha Parasuraman on 5/13/2026
very clear explanation of each and every concept. easy to understand.
By Navneet Gupta on 2/13/2026
Great overview of all the aspects of Requirements Engineering and really satisfied with all its learnings. Really recommended to all people who wants to learn System / Software Requirements engineering.
By Ioanna Zarkadoula on 1/17/2026
helps to understand the SRS in theory. Gives examples. Very useful.
By ARUL JOSE RAJAPPAN on 11/18/2025
With good content, voice and visuals, the course creates a great learning experience.
By Alejandro on 10/7/2025
The content it´s okey, but I had problem while the quiz because some questions was difficult to understand or the explanation of the question was not very clear of all. I would like it saw more explamples in every topic or more documents to practice and be more preparated to the real escenario.
By Trisha H R on 10/2/2025
It was really great course , I learned too many things from this course , thankyou sir for this amazing course.
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