Revisiting Requirements Documentation Techniques and Challenges

Abstract

Requirement documentation plays a substantial role in requirement engineering (RE) process. It is a procedure of forming the document, which is used to communicate functions, events and operations to many stakeholders in software development procedure. The documents similarly perform as a proof of all the processes and actions included in software development. The precise level of attention to clearly share requirements and the vital concepts makes software projects successful. The comprehensive and approved requirements are specified and documented to aid as the root for advanced system development activities. In spite of various trends setting research outcomes, many practitioners and researchers have observed challenges and issues with requirement documentation phase in previous literature. However, very slight devotion has been given to explore the variety of challenges of documentation phase in various documentation methods. The study unveils the need for automation and standardization of requirement documentation process and techniques. Additionally, this paper attempts to analyze the substantial challenges of requirement documentation.