The impact of software requirement change – a review

Abstract

One of the main recommended practices to enhance software development process is dealing with requirement change. It represents risks to the success and completion of a project. In this paper a comprehensive review on the impact of Software Requirement Change has been conducted. The literature was written in a historical way and divided into four periods. The results of this review show that most addressed fields in this topic studied the requirement change impact on the time (schedule) and the cost of the software project. Furthermore open research directions in this field are proposed.