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The Impact of Software Requirement Change – A Review

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New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 353))

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One of the main recommended practices to enhance software development process is dealing with requirement change. It represents risks to the success and completion of a project. In this paper a comprehensive review on the impact of Software Requirement Change has been conducted. The literature was written in a historical way and divided into four periods. The results of this review show that most addressed fields in this topic studied the requirement change impact on the time (schedule) and the cost of the software project. Furthermore open research directions in this field are proposed.

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    Abeer AlSanad & Azeddine Chikh

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Alvaro Rocha

  2. Campus de Campolide, ISEGI, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. DEIS, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

  4. DIS, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luis Paulo Reis

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AlSanad, A., Chikh, A. (2015). The Impact of Software Requirement Change – A Review. In: Rocha, A., Correia, A., Costanzo, S., Reis, L. (eds) New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 353. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16486-1_80

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