A SWOT Analysis of Software Requirement Validation Techniques

Existing software requirement validation (SRV) techniques are theoretical concepts with no real-life application. There is no report on what could be considered as the best of the SRV techniques. The study focuses on systematic literature review of existing SRV techniques, emphasizing their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) as well as the involvement of end-users in SRV process. The authors opined to identify SRV technique(s) that could be considered best and user-centric. Four hundred and twenty-four articles were identified initially but after applying the exclusion criteria, and 59 articles were identified for review. They defined one generic research question (GRQ) and five specific research questions (SRQi, i = 1,2,3,4,5) to guide the review and provide the required details for SWOT analysis of SRV techniques. Software is yet to be developed for users’ requirements validation both on a small and large scale, and none of the SRV techniques incorporate user story framework.