An Analysis of Requirement Engineering Practices in Pakistani Software Houses

Software Requirement Engineering (RE) has been considered as the most significant part of software development life cycle (SDLC). It impacts the overall project progress and quality of the final product. Spending insufficient amount of time and effort in requirement engineering phase can increase the cost of errors in next phases of SDLC. Many approaches and techniques have been proposed by researchers so far, but all of them have not been practiced very widely in the industry. In order to further refine and improve requirement engineering process, problems faced in contemporary practice needs to be understood. General objective of this research is to identify and analyze requirement engineering practices in Pakistani Software Industry. Survey is used to gather data from local software industry. The analysis presents how frequently a particular type of RE practice is being used by local industry experts. The ultimate goal is to suggest best practices in requirement engineering and give recommendations to upcoming researchers regarding methods and techniques in this research area.