Requirements Interdependencies-Moulding the State of Research into a Research Agenda

Requirements relate to and affect each other, i.e. they are interdependent. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on requirements interdependencies and formulates a research agenda for the area. The research agenda, which is based on a new classification drawn from the literature and intermediary results from an ongoing interview study, addresses a number of unresolved issues concerning the identification, documentation and use of requirements interdependencies in the software development process.

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