An Approach for Eliciting Software Requirements and its Prioritization Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Most software engineering methods presume that requirements are explicitly and completely stated; however, experience shows that requirements are rarely complete and usually contain implicit requirements. The failure or success of a software system depends on the quality of the requirements. The quality of the requirements is influenced by the techniques employed during requirements elicitation. Requirements elicitation is most critical part of the software development because errors at this beginning stage propagate through the development process and the hardest to repair later. In this paper we have proposed an algorithmic approach to elicit the software requirements and its prioritization of the requirements using analytic hierarchy process (AHP).