Quality Requirement Change Management’s Challenges: An Exploratory Study Using SLR

Abstract

Requirement change management plays an important role in the business world where management in the business scenario is a hard-hitting assignment because of continuously changing customer choices in respect of requirements. Giving no attention to requirement change management challenges result in consumers' discontent. Main cause of business products is that there is no planning regarding requirement change management. Furthermore, it also affects market value. Dealing in requirement change management, it's far important to cope with those challenges to undertake the requirement of the business consumers. This article focuses on documentation and control of quality requirement challenges by using an approach of systematic literature review. The main goal of this article is to classify critical challenges being faced by vendor companies in global software development. A total of fourteen challenges have been documented which have a severe effect on the management of quality requirements. Challenges documented by an author like 'Incomplete requirements', 'Lack of Communication & Coordination, etc. are the key challenges harming managing quality requirement changes. Among these fourteen challenges, nine challenges are marked as critical challenges whose ratios are above 25%. The identified challenges were analyzed decade wise where we categorized them into three decades i.e. first decade (1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002), the second decade (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), and the third decade (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021).

Requirement Change Management in Global Software Development: A Systematic Review

“…Effective RCM is essential as poor management in this area can lead to defects and software failure(J. Ahmad et al, 2022). The challenges in RCM are in uenced by various factors such as organizational policies, market trends, and operational environments (S. Anwer et al, 2019).…”

“…Moreover, the analysis of the di culties faced in internal development compared to GSD(S. Anwer et al, 2019) and the signi cance of critical success factors in offshore quality requirement change management(J. Ahmad et al, 2022) highlight the speci c challenges encountered in global project architectures. This paper emphasizes the importance of project management, organizational support, technological infrastructure, and understanding success factors in effectively tackling the speci c problems of global software development.…”

Exploring Software Development Change Analysis with an Emphasis on Requirements

“…Modifications of this nature, on the other hand, pose a substantial threat since they can result in the degradation of the programmed system [11]. Therefore, modifications to requirements ought to be documented, monitored, and tightly regulated in order to assure the system's continuous existence from a technical perspective.…”