Dependency-aware software release planning

The existing software release planning models aim to find a subset of software requirements with the highest value on the assumption that the value of a selected subset of requirements equals to the Accumulated Value (AV) of that subset. This assumption however, does not hold due to the Value-related Dependencies among software requirements. To address this, we have formulated an integer programming model for software release planning that finds a subset of software requirements with the highest Overall Value (OV) where overall value of a selected subset of requirements captures the impacts of value-related dependencies on the value of that subset. We have demonstrated through several simulations that maximizing the accumulated value of a selected subset of requirements may conflict with maximizing the overall value of that subset.