Making a decision about importance analysis and prioritization of use cases through comparison the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with use case point (UCP) technique

Abstract

The existing studies suggested the Importance and Prioritization Methods which for exactly reflecting customers' requests from the proper requirements [1,2]. However, this method decides ERRC (Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create) of Use Case by the customers' subjective judgment. Moreover, such a previous approach can't present a verification method for logical consistency about customers' judgment [3]. In order to more objectively solve such a problem, this paper suggests another method for the importance extraction and prioritization of Use Case with AHP mechanism. With this suggested method, it compares and verifies the data extracted from each method of Use Case Point or AHP, and also judges whether the customers' idea is consistently determined through Consistency Assessment of AHP or not. We show a Case Study to adapt this to Automobile Goods Management System, for the exact customers' requests. © 2014 SERSC.