A SWOT Analysis of Software Requirement Validation Techniques

Abstract

Existing software requirement validation (SRV) techniques are theoretical concepts with no real-life application. No report on what could be considered as the best of the SRV techniques. Our study focus on systematic literature review of existing SRV techniques, emphasizing on their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) as well as the involvement of end-users in SRV process. We opined to identify SRV technique(s) that could be considered best and user-centric. Four hundred and twenty-four articles were identified initially but after applying the exclusion criteria, 59 articles were identified for review. We defined one generic research question (GRQ) and five specific research questions (SRQi, i = 1,2,3,4,5) to guide our review and provide the required details for SWOT analysis of SRV techniques. A software is yet to be developed for users’ requirements validation both on a small and larg scale and none of the SRV techniques incorporate user story framework.