A Manga-Driven System Requirements Development PBL Exercise
This is an incremental approach for enhancing requirements development education in software engineering.
The paper tackled the problem of improving requirements development processes by incorporating Japanese manga techniques into a Project-Based Learning exercise, resulting in students clarifying high-level project goals early and defining high-quality, unique system ideas.
We conducted a Project-Based Learning (PBL)-type exercise incorporating Japanese cartoon (manga) techniques into Requirements Development (RD) processes. Manga has established techniques, such as those for character setting and story development, that we thought are also valid for RD processes. Using this manga-driven method, students were able to clarify high-level project goals early in the development life-cycle, and succeeded in defining high quality and unique system ideas.