Software requirements prioritizing

Abstract

The importance of candidate software requirements can vary by orders of magnitude, yet most software providers do not have accurate and efficient means for selecting among them. The paper describes a case study at Ericsson Radio Systems AB of two techniques for software requirements prioritizing as a means for determining the importance of candidate requirements, a pairwise comparison technique and a numeral assignment technique. The results from the case study indicate that the pairwise comparison technique is an efficient informative and accurate means for finding the candidate requirements importance. We therefore recommend the pairwise comparison technique for software requirements prioritizing. At Ericsson we have extended its use in other development projects.