Impediments to requirements-compliance

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. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.