Requirement Engineering Challenges in Agile Software Development

Table 1

Summary of challenges faced in agile requirement engineering with their activities.

Requirement engineering (phase)	Activities in agile	Challenges	Their impact
Elicitation	Interviews and questionnaires	Problem scoping, misunderstanding, ambiguity in language create flaws	The ill-defined requirements affect requirement analysis
Elicitation	Brainstorming	Group brainstorming	Ambiguous or ill-defined
Elicitation	Prototyping	Security, scalability, and robustness	Maintenance problem
Analysis	Prioritisation	Conflicting ideas	Ambiguity
Documentation	User stories	Irrelevant user stories, unavailability of customer representatives	Mislead implementation
Documentation	Product backlog and index cards	Minimal documentation	Loss of knowledge
Validation	Feedback from clients	Lack of proper validation methods and tools, prototyping issues	Low quality
Management	Change and version control	Selection of an appropriate tool	Wastage of time
Management	Requirement traceability	No effective way of requirement management and traceability	No traceability