Cognitive Process of Comprehension in Requirement Analysis in IT Applications

Requirement Analysis is an important phase in software development which deals with understanding the customers requirements. It includes the collection of information from the customer, which is regarding the customers requirements and what he expects from the software which is to be developed. By doing so, you can have a better understanding of what the customer actually needs and hence can deliver the output as per the customers requirements. Studies are being carried out to bring about improvements in the process of requirement analysis so that errors in software development could be minimized and hence improved and reliable products could be delivered. The human brain comprises of many processes such as thinking, planning, memorizing and analyzing. The brain tends to remember almost everything what it has already experienced in the past. This pattern which gets stored in the memory can be retrieved and used in numerous applications. This paper intends to describe how existing knowledge which has been previously gained and was stored in the brain plays an important role in the requirement analysis process and helps to understand the customers needs effectively and minimize errors and deliver an improved and refined software product.