Requirements Development Life Cycle with Respect to Geographically Distributed Stakeholders: The "V" Model

Requirements engineering activities act as a backbone of software development. The more efforts devoted in Requirements engineering activities results in a better software product. Requirements engineering activities are difficult when it is done locally and it is even more difficult when cross cultural stakeholder influence it. These stakeholders have their own perception and expectation of the requirements. This paper presents a model called V model which can be used for requirements development with respect to geographically distributed stakeholder. The activities in this model can be followed in order to develop requirements with respect to geographically distributed stakeholder for a software product.