Research on Technologies of Software Requirements Prioritization

With the expansion of the scale of software projects and the number of users, excessive software requirements are repeating and overlapping one another. It is getting more fundamental and important to sort the requirements according to their priority using the technologies of software requirements prioritization for costs saving and demands satisfying. This paper analyzed the merits and demerits of the technologies of software requirements prioritization based on sorting and searching, summarized and discussed some important problems demanding prompt solution, related to requirements clustering and redundancy elimination, customers clustering and requirements prioritization based on customer groups, the management of the dependencies between requirements.

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