Impediments to requirements-compliance

Authors:
Md. Rashed Iqbal Nekvi;Nazim H. Madhavji;Remo Ferrari;Brian Berenbach
Affiliations:
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada;University of Western Ontario, London, Canada;Siemens Corporate Research;Siemens Corporate Research
Venue:
REFSQ'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Requirements Engineering: foundation for software quality
Year:
2012

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Abstract

[Context & motivation] Large contractual projects often have to comply against government regulations and standards. [Question/problem] In such a context, the contractual document can be voluminous, and there can be a large number of standards and regulations to follow. These documents typically form a complex interrelationship network. This means that in the requirements engineering (RE) process, this network needs to be analysed for deriving project requirements to be implemented. A key activity of this RE process is to demonstrate compliance by showing, through appropriate traces, that all relevant requirements have been elicited from the regulatory documents. [Principal ideas/results] [Contribution] In this problem-statement paper, we describe some key impediments to achieving requirements-compliance that we have identified in a large systems engineering project.