Introducing a Framework for Requirement Prioritization Using Multi-Aspect Decision Making
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https://doi.org/10.3991/itdaf.v3i4.59215Keywords:
Requirement Prioritization, Requirement Conflicts, Requirement Uncertainty, Multi-aspect Decision-MakingAbstract
In software development, it is crucial to highlight the most important requirements related to software components. The process of requirement elicitation and prioritization actively involved stakeholders, requiring several decisions to meet their requirements. Often useful requirement components are neglected. This paper proposes a framework that is meant to promote multi-faceted decision-making based on a number of dimensions such as business values, stakeholder preference, functional constraints, conflicts between requirements, and requirements’ interdependencies and thereby improve the quality and efficiency of the requirement prioritization process. The framework serves to enrich the functional attributes of requirements. Through a detailed literature review, this research found aspects of requirements that have the most influence on the software project and the business process. Moreover, the framework utilizes natural language processing (NLP) methods in the ability to identify conflicts between stakeholders’ needs and to ensure requirements’ completeness and clarity. The combination of multi-faceted analysis together with stakeholder priority analysis improves the requirement prioritization process. The results show that the proposed framework successfully reduces the possibility of useful requirement components being overlooked, lowers conflicts between stakeholders, and improves requirements’ completeness. This approach improves the decision-making process associated with prioritization by allowing requirement analysis to be done from various dimensions. Moreover, it pinpoints possible success factors related to software requirements and thereby facilitates the software engineering team in effectively prioritizing and implementing these requirements and thereby improving the quality of the software engineering process.
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