Towards Utility-based Prioritization of Requirements in Open Source Environments
Abstract
Requirements Engineering in open source projects such as Eclipse faces the challenge of having to prioritize requirements for individual contributors in a more or less unobtrusive fashion. In contrast to conventional industrial software development projects, contributors in open source platforms can decide on their own which requirements to implement next. In this context, the main role of prioritization is to support contributors in figuring out the most relevant and interesting requirements to be implemented next and thus avoid time-consuming and inefficient search processes. In this paper, we show how utility-based prioritization approaches can be used to support contributors in conventional as well as in open source Requirements Engineering scenarios. As an example of an open source environment, we use Bugzilla. In this context, we also show how dependencies can be taken into account in utility-based prioritization processes.
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@article{arxiv.2102.08638,
title = {Towards Utility-based Prioritization of Requirements in Open Source Environments},
author = {Alexander Felfernig and Martin Stettinger and Müslüm Atas and Ralph Samer and Jennifer Nerlich and Simon Scholz and Juha Tiihonen and Mikko Raatikainen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08638},
year = {2021}
}
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A. Felfernig, M. Stettinger, M. Atas, R. Samer, J. Nerlich, S. Scholz, J. Tiihonen, and M. Raatikainen. Towards Utility-based Prioritization of Requirements in Open Source Environments, 26th IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering, pp. 406-411, Banff, Canada, 2018