Open AccessRequirement Elicitation issues and Challenges in Pakistan Software Industry
Author(s) -
Amjad Hussain Zahid,
Ambreen Liaqat,
Muhammad Shoaib Farooq,
Sheraz Naseer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
vfast transactions on software engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-6246
pISSN - 2309-3978
DOI - 10.21015/vtse.v13i2.530
Subject(s) - requirements elicitation , expert elicitation , requirements management , computer science , requirement , scope (computer science) , process (computing) , requirements analysis , software requirements , software development process , software development , software , software engineering , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , systems engineering , engineering , software design , business , statistics , mathematics , programming language , operating system
Requirement elicitation is the actual description of the system that the software developers follow in the earlier stages of development process. It is one of the most important and primary part in developing a new application or project. It describes what a system should do and what it is capable of doing. There are some essential requirements of a system that must be met for its correct functionality. Many software systems fail due to the wrong requirement elicitation practices or poor requirement elicitation. Without the help of elicitation, it is impossible to find out the needs and the requirements of the user. In Pakistan software industry, requirement elicitation practices are not followed. In this paper, we have analyzed the issues and challenges being faced by the Pakistan software industry due to the poor requirement elicitation process. The identified issues in requirement elicitation process include a change of scope, volatility problem, change in user needs, understanding problem, uncertain requirements, communication problem, and missing requirements.