1. A method for creating a prerequisite checklist corresponding to a software application, the method comprising the steps of: identifying, by one or more processors, prerequisites of a software application that are present in source code of the software application, wherein the prerequisites are software and hardware components; identifying, by one or more processors, prerequisite detection information associated with the source code of the software application, wherein the prerequisite detection information includes one or more of: information on how to identify and interpret annotations associated with the source code of the software application that indicate prerequisites, information on how commands in the source code of the software application correspond to and indicate a prerequisite, and validation instructions that indicate how to determine whether a prerequisite is present in a computer system; and creating, by one or more processors, a prerequisite checklist that includes the identified prerequisites of the software application, wherein the prerequisite checklist is in a file format that is compatible with prerequisite checking software.