Towards Automatic Analysis of Software Requirement Stability

Requirement eliciting, organizing, developing and managing are most important activities in the implementation of software systems. Changes of requirements are inevitable. But, too many changes of requirements might fail software projects. Thus, the stability of the software requirements of a project is critical to the software development success. However, there are no published studies on software requirement stability yet. This paper proposes an approach to analyze the software requirement stability based on the regression analysis and control chart analysis of the function point changes. It can help the organizations to predict the future trend of the projects.

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