A Review of Agile Methods for Requirement Change Management in Web Engineering

Abstract

Web-based systems are essential in many different applications, which makes web-based development different from traditional software development. The agile methodology has gained lots of popularity in the last 15 years and become very traditional and acceptable widely among software engineers; nevertheless, the use of agile methods has extended to cover other areas of software engineering field including Requirement Engineering (RE) that fit the need of web engineering. The pace of the current web's software development is fast and dynamic such that the changes of the requirements during software development and after turning to production phase are possible and recurrent. Therefore, agile software engineering conceptuality has evolved as an adequate approach to overcome changes in the web's software's requirements; due to frequent changes in requirements, web engineers call for help of agile software engineering methods, which strive to truly manage changes in requirements rather than preventing these changes. This paper provides a review on the available agile methodologies that used to assess requirement change management in web engineering.