Interactive Software Release Planning with Preferences Base

The release planning is a complex task in the software development process and involves many aspects related to the decision about which requirements should be allocated in each system release. Several search based techniques have been proposed to tackle this problem, but in most cases the human expertise and preferences are not effectively considered. In this context, this work presents an approach in which the search is guided according to a Preferences Base supplied by the user. Preliminary empirical results showed the approach is able to find solutions which satisfy the most important user preferences.