Optimizing Value and Cost in Requirements Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Ho-Won Jung

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

When creating a software system, developers are often faced with a long list of requirements and a limited budget. This article gives developers a method to balance the cost and value of the requirements, and then implement the most cost-effective set. The author created a variant of the "knapsack" approach that reduces the complexity of earlier approaches; he presents here two case studies to illustrate its application.