Review and Analysis of Effective Role of Identifying Risk Factors in Software Development Projects in Requirements Phase

Farahani, Elham; Shamsjavi, Mahboubeh; Zahedi, Mohammad Hadi

doi:10.22034/apj.2022.704023

Review and Analysis of Effective Role of Identifying Risk Factors in Software Development Projects in Requirements Phase

Document Type : Original Research Article

Authors

Elham Farahani ¹

Mahboubeh Shamsjavi ²

Mohammad Hadi Zahedi ³

¹ Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Software Engineering, Iranians University, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Information Technology, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/apj.2022.704023

Abstract

Software engineering affects all aspects of our daily lives. Software development is the basis of activity in the world of software engineering and information technology. Software development involves a set of steps called the software development cycle.
For the success of any software it is significant that each stage of the software development cycle be without errors and defects. But it is unfortunate that we cannot proceed without any uncertainty in the software development cycle. Therefore, it is important that we can identify and evaluate the risks of the initial steps of this cycle.
Requirements engineering are preliminary stage of software development cycle, that it's basic needs are collected from customer. If the risks are ignored in the requirements engineering stage, it will have negative effects on the ability of projects to achieve performance goals and efficiency and so the results.
The main topic of this article is to identify the risk factors in software development projects focusing on the requirements engineering stage. It also refers to the impact of requirements on the outcome and final product performance and also examine the importance of uncertainty requirements role on the quality of the final product. Then, the risk management steps and its role in strengthening the requirements engineering phase will be described.
Conclusion of this article reviews the importance of identifying harmful factors in the early stage of software development and also emphasizes the need to implement the risk management in the requirements engineering.

Keywords

Requirements Engineering

Software Development Cycle

Requirements Uncertainty

Risk

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