THE APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT OF REQUIREMENT QUALITY BY APPLICATION OF GENERALIZED PRIORITIZED FUZZY CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM

Radomir Prodanović, Dejan Rančić, Ivan Vulić, Dušan Bogićević

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUACR2003175P
First page
175
Last page
190

Abstract


The requirement quality affects product development at all lifecycle stages, as well as the end product. Poorly defined requirements bring to extended deadlines, increased financial costs, even to project disruption. Current researches related to the good quality of requirements include characteristics of good requirements and the development of new elicitation techniques. Requirement quality evaluation should be tailored both to the professionals and users who defined requirements according to their needs. Therefore, the model is designed for requirement quality measurement based on the characteristics of good requirements by application of the Generalized Prioritized Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Problem. The model enables the participation of selected characteristics of good requirements in quality evaluation, according to priorities. The evaluator obtains information if the requirement satisfies the given quality satisfaction threshold based on the degree of fulfillment of selected characteristics of a good requirement. The model is applied to all types of requirements, as well as to the evaluation of requirements at all software development lifecycle stages.


Keywords

Quality requirement, GFPCSP, fuzzy logic, elicitation requirement, software product

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