Development of a Structured Framework to Minimize Impact of Requirement Volatility

Abstract

Minimizing the impact of the requirement volatility in software development process is a critical issue for both researchers and practitioners. Requirement volatility is unavoidable; therefore we need to find correct solution to manage changing requirements. Despite having many methods and tools, that are available to manage the requirement change, we need to evolve a method that deals with the change in a way that minimizes the impact to the stakeholders. In this paper, we have proposed RVMIN framework that is incorporated in SDLC, in a way that it minimizes impact of change on the stakeholder in terms of time and cost. This framework is based on both an empirical study that we have conducted and our extensive literature review of Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Requirement Engineering (RE).