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[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.
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Nekvi, M.R.I., Madhavji, N.H., Ferrari, R., Berenbach, B. (2012). Impediments to Requirements-Compliance. In: Regnell, B., Damian, D. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28714-5_3
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