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

TL;DR

This paper introduces a formal framework to analyze and optimize requirements specifications for global systems, addressing cultural, regulatory, and technical differences across countries to ensure compliance and coherence.

Contribution

It presents a novel formal framework for analyzing and managing diverse requirements in global system development, considering cultural, legal, and technical factors.

Findings

Framework enables systematic analysis of requirement diversity

Supports change management in global requirements

Helps avoid non-compliance and redundancies

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.