Exams aim at verifying that students have successfully acquired the knowledge and abilities described in the "Objectives" section, by evaluating the level of knowledge and the ability to apply in practice the techniques mentioned in section "Contents".
Students can choose one of the following examination methods: (1) project or (2) written exam.
The project (1) involves the elicitation and specification of requirements, and can be carried out by a single student or by two students. The project involves 4 milestones: 1) the problem is informally described; 2) requirement are elicited, analysis of strategic goals, evaluation of alternatives, and choice of the solution to be proposed; 3) analysis of the tactical objectives for the chosen solution, models of entities, relations, use cases and behavior; 4) solution specification. The evaluation is based on the material released at milestones 2, 3 and 4. The final rank depends on the quality of the resulting requirements specifications with respect to completeness, consistency, readability, feasibility, satisfaction of users' needs.
The written exam (2) includes a set of exercises that test the ability of students to understand a simple though realistic problem and apply the techniques presented in the course to specified portions of the given problem. Students are given one hour to complete the written test.
The final mark is expressed in a 0 to 30 scale. Let n be the number of exercises in the written exam: each exercise is worth 30/n points.
Concerning the project, milestones 2-4 are worth 10 points each (no points for milestone 1).