Conf. on Software Eng. Research & Practice (SERP'05) 427 The Views of Quality for the Requirements Document

Software products are a critical and strategic asset in an organizations ' business. They are becoming larger, more sophisticated and more complex. The challenge is to develop more complicated software products within the constraints of time and resources without the sacrifice of quality. Quality standards, methodologies and techniques have been continually proposed by researchers and used by software engineers in the industry. However, studies on quality have mainly focused on the final software product. This paper looks at the requirements document. It develops cognitive structures for the user and developer stakeholder groups from a qualitative study of requirement document quality. The paper compares these results with the cognitive structures of the finished software product