Quality Management in Requirement Engineering process in Pakistan Software industry (T-0686) (MFN 4224)

Abstract

Requirements engineering is individual of the essential process of any software development process model. The main purpose of this core process is to acquiring, analyzing, gathering and specifying requirements. The total cost of requirements engineering process depends on the project type, complexity and size [53]. This thesis focus on these quality practices and methods those are involve into software requirement process and can be helpful in this process. Quality practices are apply through a centralize software system, that system can enhance the quality of requirement engineering process and produce the quality requirements and called Quality management System. QMS takes the requirements from customer, elicit and analyze it, give chance to all stakeholders to negotiate and perform changes in early phase and then documented the all material, it also give great help to make quality software to fulfill the customer need and satisfaction. Focus of research is to gap analysis between the standardize quality software requirement practices and the practices follows into small scale Pakistani software industry and measure the gap that created when quality management not involve in RE process. Thesis focused on methods those are practice into Pakistani software industry. Why they perform these practices? Why others methods are not? And what problems they found when they want to improve this process and how they face the problems? Why they not follow the quality standards and quality practices? What is gap between the software requirement quality practices and the practices perform into Pakistani software industry. The survey approach is used in this research study, after conducting the interviews and receiving the response from questionnaire, analyze the whole data and make final result and then compare it with international standards and quality requirement engineering practices for gap analysis and show the result of each and every questionnaire and interview in graphical. After in depth survey and analysis the study of quantitative and qualitative data enables us to develop a prototype of improved QMS with some implemented features that are desired by users. Our prototype helps the local software industry to implement and improve QMS.