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Dealing Hybrid Model Appling in the Selection and Prioritization of Software Requirements Using Verbal Decision Analysis

Version 1 : Received: 16 April 2020 / Approved: 17 April 2020 / Online: 17 April 2020 (17:10:16 CEST)

How to cite: Barbosa, P.A.M.; Pinheiro, P.R.; Silveira, F.R.V.; Filho, M.S. Dealing Hybrid Model Appling in the Selection and Prioritization of Software Requirements Using Verbal Decision Analysis. Preprints 2020, 2020040306. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0306.v1 Barbosa, P.A.M.; Pinheiro, P.R.; Silveira, F.R.V.; Filho, M.S. Dealing Hybrid Model Appling in the Selection and Prioritization of Software Requirements Using Verbal Decision Analysis. Preprints 2020, 2020040306. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202004.0306.v1

Abstract

In the software development process, the decision-maker (DM) has a range of problems inherent to its function. Wrong choices during software planning can bring great risk to the project. Therefore, the planning of software releases to be delivered to the customer should be well done. This is not an easy task because releases are made up of many requirements that contain complex variables that must be considered, such as precedence, cost, requirement stability, among other features that make the requirements-selection process challenging. To make this process less exhaustive, DM can use tools that facilitate this work. In software engineering, we can find fields of research specialists in this context, such as Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE). The SBSE makes use of advanced metaheuristics to search for optimal solutions or the closest to it. In this work, we try to use another field of research to solve this same problem type, the Verbal Decision Analysis (VDA). To do this, we elaborate a workflow that will use the same source data, execute two solutions using the two search fields (SBSE and VDA) and compare the results. In the end, we evaluated and commented on the results.

Keywords

requirements planning; search-based software engineering; verbal decision analysis

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems

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