USING THE FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS PRIORITIZATION
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6321Keywords:
FMCDM, Fuzzy theory, Software requirements prioritization, stakeholders, softwareAbstract
To avoid breach of agreement or contract in software development projects, stakeholders converge to prioritize specified requirements. This is due to the fact that, not all the specified requirements can be implemented in a single release. Therefore, prioritization is the act of rating requirements according to their relative importance by project stakeholders in order to plan for software release phases. The problem of existing prioritization techniques includes computational complexities, ranking inaccuracy and large disparities between final ranks among others. Consequently, this paper presents an improved approach for prioritizing requirements for software projects requirements with stakeholders based on the limitations of existing prioritization techniques using fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (FMCDM) approach. Â Â
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