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Software development environments are susceptible to changes in requirements due to the abrupt updates in market needs. This imposes a burden on the software development team to adhere to these new changes by prioritizing them based on their significance to the project. However, prioritization of the list of requirements is not a spontaneous task as it involves several attributes such as requirements importance, complexity, cost, and completion time. Stakeholder requirements are usually interrelated where they may contribute to the same use cases and the same quality attributes that are identified during the specifications phase. Thus, considering the relationships among requirements at the different specification levels should be investigated in the prioritization process. In this paper, we propose a new approach for requirements prioritization using the relationships between the stakeholder requirements and their derived specifications in the form of use cases and non-functional requirements.
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Alawneh, L. (2018). Requirements Prioritization Using Hierarchical Dependencies. In: Latifi, S. (eds) Information Technology - New Generations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 558. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_59
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