A method of software requirements specification and validation for global software development

Ali, Naveed; Lai, Richard

doi:10.1007/s00766-015-0240-4

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“…The methods that are employed to specify and validate the requirements for collocated development of software, are not effective in the case of GSD. The study [48] advocates a method to document and validate the requirements in the case of GSD. To apply the method, requirements graph and validation matrices are generated.…”

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Requirements engineering issues causing software development outsourcing failure

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Software development outsourcing is becoming more and more famous because of the advantages like cost abatement, process enhancement, and coping with the scarcity of needed resources. Studies confirm that unfortunately a large proportion of the software development outsourcing projects fails to realize anticipated benefits. Investigations into the failures of such projects divulge that in several cases software development outsourcing projects are failed because of the issues that are associated with requirements engineering process. The objective of this study is the identification and the ranking of the commonly occurring issues of the requirements engineering process in the case of software development outsourcing. For this purpose, contemporary literature has been assessed rigorously, issues faced by practitioners have been identified and three questionnaire surveys have been organized by involving experienced software development outsourcing practitioners. The Delphi technique, cutoff value method and 50% rule have also been employed. The study explores 150 issues (129 issues from literature and 21 from industry) of requirements engineering process for software development outsourcing, groups the 150 issues into 7 identified categories and then extricates 43 customarily or commonly arising issues from the 150 issues. Founded on 'frequency of occurrence' the 43 customarily arising issues have been ranked with respect to respective categories (category-wise ranking) and with respect to all the categories (overall ranking). Categories of the customarily arising issues have also been ranked. The issues' identification and ranking contribute to design proactive software project management plan for dealing with software development outsourcing failures and attaining conjectured benefits of the software development outsourcing.

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“…Lamersdorf et al 92 argued that the budget and time are the significant factors of software systems that might affect during the RCM process, and potential risks could occur. Ali and Lai 19 revealed that the inability to address relevant risks would cause project failure.…”

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“…Lai and Ali 17 underlined that poor RCM is one of the major causes of low project success rates in the GSD domain. Besides the significance of RCM in GSD, limited research has been conducted towards the development of tools and standards for the RCM process 18,19 . In our previous published study, 20 we have explored the success factors of RCM in the GSD context.…”

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A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process to prioritize the success factors of requirement change management in global software development

Akbar

Shameem²,

Khan

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J Software Evolu Process

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Planning and managing of requirement change management (RCM) process in global software development (GSD) are a complicated task, but the RCM plays a significant role in developing the quality software within time and budget. The key aim of this study is to prioritize the factors that could positively influence the RCM program in GSD context. To achieve the study objective, the questionnaire survey study was conducted to get the feedback of the practitioners concerning the success factors of RCM in GSD context. Moreover, the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) was applied. The application of FAHP is novel in this research domain as it has been effectively applied previously in various other research areas, for example, supplier selection, electronics and electrical, personnel selection, and agile software development. The results of this study will provide the prioritization‐based taxonomy of RCM success factors and also contribute by introducing the novel FAHP approach in the research domain of RCM in GSD. The FAHP approach assists the practitioners to reduce the uncertainty and vague opinions of RCM experts.

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“…Later, we suggest using a matrix-based technique to undertake requirements validation at different GSD sites. As a result, details of those requirements that do not satisfy the validation properties will be identified [2,3].…”

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Requirements Engineering in Global Software Development: A Survey Study from the Perspectives of Stakeholders

Ali¹,

Lai²

2018

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Global software development (GSD), where software teams are located in different parts of the world, has become increasingly popular. However, GSD involves issues such as geographical distance, cultural diversities, differences in time zones, and language barriers amongst stakeholders, making it different from collocated software development, and requirements engineering (RE) is very much affected by these issues. To examine what stakeholders think about the impact of these factors on the different activities of RE in a GSD environment, we have conducted a survey among organizations located in different parts of the world which were involved in GSD. In this paper, we present the findings of the survey. The survey pointed to the facts that stakeholders are not very aware of the risks and challenges associated with GSD, that stakeholders are not clear about how the geographical dispersion of development teams could affect the RE process, and that the lack of RE methods for GSD makes stakeholders use the conventional techniques and approaches of RE that do not consider the factors involved in GSD. The findings of our study will enable readers to gain a better understanding of what different groups of stakeholders think about RE in GSD.

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A method of software requirements specification and validation for global software development

Cited by 24 publications

References 24 publications

Requirements engineering issues causing software development outsourcing failure

Requirements engineering issues causing software development outsourcing failure

A fuzzy analytical hierarchy process to prioritize the success factors of requirement change management in global software development

Requirements Engineering in Global Software Development: A Survey Study from the Perspectives of Stakeholders

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