Influences of Requirement Change on Software Failure

Abstract

Most of the software requirements are not unfurnished in the initial level of development procedure of software. Software requirements are usually unavoidable due to frequent changes in user needs, changes in market and business policy and operating environment. Basically, requirement change management is also an important and challenging part of the software development process. Changing requirements are one of the main reasons of project failure or cancelled. The success and failure of any software project mostly depend upon project manager that how he manages the requirement change.

Several Requirement change management models and methods are introduced and performed different activities for mitigating the impacts of requirement changes. 

The paper explores research effort done in the field of requirement change and helps to identify the goal of the study.