USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) TO PRIORITIZE AUDITING TASKS FOR LARGE-SCALE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Normally a large-scale software system comprises a number of software sybsystems which require auditing from time to time to ensure the adeq uacy of the implementation. Assigning priorities to these auditing tas ks is an important planning activity of management. Failing to utilize organizational resources to review the most critical systems first ma y cause many unfavorable effects to the organization. Some examples of these effects are user dissatisfaction, lower productivity, and fatal system breakdown. The priority decision requires the consideration of many criteria, such as costs of system failure, reliability level, st aff experience, technical requirements, quality requirements, etc. Thi s paper introduces an auditing prioritization method based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a well known decision model for tackling mul tiple-criteria problems.