Teaching Goal Modeling to Engineering Professionals - An Experience Report

Model-based software engineering is a common means to cope with complexity, size, and safety-relevance of modern embedded systems. While conceptual modeling is often part of university curricula and the concepts of modelbased engineering are also taught in industrial training, very few experience reports can be found on teaching model-based requirements engineering to industry professionals. In this paper, we report on our findings from teaching goal modeling with GRL as part of a model-based engineering course to industry professionals with no software engineering background. It showed that goal modeling is an appropriate means to cope with industrial problems, that teaching goal modeling can be used as gentle introduction into model-based software engineering, and that fundamental concepts of conceptual modeling are easy to understand for engineering professionals when taught in combination with goal modeling.