Positive trends in requirement engineering practices for higher software quality

In this competitive world, customer satisfaction is the utmost important thing for any organization to survive. Customer satisfaction merely depends upon the quality of the product delivered to him. Software industry has seen a tremendous growth in last few years. Success of Software industry depends upon the cost, schedule and quality of the software being produced. Many of the software projects fail due to being delayed, over budget or due to non-conformity to quality standards. Quality products can be produced only if requirements of the client is understood rightly and at right time. Understanding of the requirement of the client is very crucial for any organization. A lot of research has been done to find out effective requirement engineering processes so as to produce quality products on time and on budget. Theories say that quality of any software directly depends upon how effectively RE processes have been followed by the software development team. If requirements are identified clearly at initial stage then it leads to high standard of quality software project. So requirement engineering processes and software quality are co-related and go side by side.

The aim of this study is to check how much RE processes affects software productivit by conducting a survey in nine different software development companies and taking evidence from the software developers who are actually using these practices practically in their jobs.