Requirements Engineering for Global Systems: Cultural, Regulatory and Technical Aspects

Abstract

In this paper we present a formal framework for analysis and optimisation of the requirements specifications of systems developed to apply in several countries. As different countries typically have different regulations/laws as well as different cultural restrictions, the corresponding specific requirements might differ in each particular case. Our framework provides a basis for (1) systematic and formal analysis of the diversity and interdependencies within the sets of the requirements, to avoid non-compliance, contradictions and redundancies; (2) corresponding systematic process for change management in the case of global system development.

Preprint. Accepted to 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2019). Final version published by SciTePress