Requirement prioritization approaches and evaluation strategies: a systematic literature review

Abstract

Requirements prioritization is one of process in requirement engineering which aim to manage the order of urgency and implementation a set of requirements. Requirement prioritization also used in software development project to cope with the limited resources allocated. Many research have been done at industrial and academic level in this particular area. There are many techniques applied by using several approaches. However, the evaluation towards the effectiveness and efficiency of these available techniques still can be examined. There is a need to identify the approaches used and the evaluation performed towards these techniques. A comprehensive and systematic exploration to distinguish the state-of-the-art approaches been used to develop, as well as methods used to evaluate those prioritization techniques is planned. The plan is elaborated in detail within this paper by using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol. Initial finding for this planning phase for SLR is a collection of scrutinized and significant research literatures. The extracted data from these literatures later will be used to summarize state of the art approaches to develop techniques for prioritizing requirement. Additionally, findings about the evaluations strategy will serve as a basis for researcher's perception in planning their research. It also will benefited the practitioners to choose a high quality and evaluated techniques. Furthermore, the findings will be useful for the researcher and academician to discover the knowledge gap for their future research and contribution.