Empirical validation of requirements management measures

Requirements management measures help organizations to understand, control and assess requirements management process. This paper validates empirically a set of requirements management measures. The measures were defined for the five specific practices of requirement’s management key process area in capability maturity model integration by applying the goal question metrics paradigm to the five specific practices. We have applied the defined measures on three information systems using historical data. Then, for each information system some hypotheses have been followed to confirm the validity of the defined measures empirically.