Managing Quality Requirements: A Systematic Review

Abstract

It is commonly acknowledged that the management of quality requirements is an important and difficult part of the requirements engineering process, which plays a critical role in software product development. In order to identify current research about quality requirements, a systematic literature review was performed. This paper identifies available empirical studies of quality requirements. A database and manual search identified 1,560 studies, of which 18 were found to be empirical research studies of high quality, and relevant to the research questions. The review investigates what is currently known about the benefits and limitations of methods of quality requirements. In addition, the state of research is presented for five identified areas: elicitation, dependencies, quality requirements metrics, cost estimations, and prioritization.