The relevance of software requirement defect management to improve requirements and product quality: A systematic literature review

Abstract

Software is an intangible computer’s component, and their requirements are the greatest challenge to handle but yet the most important. In order to ensure the requirements are in good quality, defect management is one of the promising efforts to adopt. This paper aims to provide a literature review regarding defect management for software requirements and the relevance of the defect management to improve requirements and product quality. The paper is structured based on a systematic literature review method which is constructed from significant questions. The findings on the literatures show that many efforts have been done to improve defect management effort in several stages of software development life cycle. However, the efforts are scarce in the requirement engineering phase. This paper provides a foundation study to pursue research in improving requirements and eventually product quality through defect management.