Improvement Methods for Software Requirement Specifications: A Mapping Study

Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) are a key result of the Requirement Engineering (RE) process and an important basis for every large industrial software development project. Nevertheless, accurate, complete and consistent SRS are still a challenge in practice. Many publications related to SRS address problems and provide solutions for solving these. The most frequently researched SRS problems and improvement methods are listed and referenced in this mapping study. As final result of the search process, publication are analyzed and mapped to each other. This mapping is important for a further evaluations of SRS improvement methods that helps practitioners and researchers to compare those approaches.