Priority Assessment of Software Requirements from Multiple Perspectives

The development of complex software systems involves collecting software requirements from various stakeholders. Often stakeholder perceptions conflict during the requirements elicitation phase. An effective technique for to resolve such a conflict is needed. In this paper, we presented a framework that prioritizes software requirements gathered from multiple stakeholders by incorporating interperspective relationships, which is not addressed by existing priority assessment techniques. We use a relationship matrix to analyze the impact between requirements and facilitate the integration process which assesses their priorities based on their relationships from multiple perspectives. It allows the development team to resolve conflicts effectively and concentrate their valuable time and resources on the critical few requirements from multiple perspectives that directly contribute to high customer satisfaction.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Chandra Sekhar Veera, Yan Sun, Kunio Noguchi, Yuji Kyoya
• Keywords: COMPSAC 2004, Requirements, Requirements Elicitation Phase, Software Engineering, Software Requirements