Design of a teaching framework for software requirement prioritization

In software development, one frequent reason that leads to low quality software is the lack of skill in identifying the most important requirements. Unfortunately, many software engineering students are unfamiliar with prioritizing techniques and they are not skilful to use the techniques in a specific situation or circumstance. The purpose of this study is to identify effective ways to educate software engineering students on requirement prioritization. To enable students to have a deeper understanding of requirement prioritization and to improve their practical ability, a teaching framework has been proposed. The framework´s structure is based on three main components: first, the guidelines to provide students with a basic concept; second, the empirical and completed samples to help students familiarise themselves with the process of prioritization; and third, the exercises and simulated cases to improve the practical skills and abilities of students. Teaching framework has been implemented as a web base teaching tool. Teaching tool evaluation results show that 86.6% of respondents believe that the proposed teaching framework helps them to have better understanding of requirement prioritization.