On Developing an Artifact-Based Approach to Regulatory Requirements EngineeringShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Proceedings - 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2024 / [ed] Liebel, G, Hadar I, Spoletini, P, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024, p. 262-271Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Context: Regulatory acts are a challenging source when eliciting, interpreting, and analyzing requirements. Requirements engineers often need to involve legal experts who, however, may often not be available. This raises the need for approaches to regulatory Requirements Engineering (RE) covering and integrating both legal and engineering perspectives. Problem: Regulatory RE approaches need to capture and reflect both the elementary concepts and relationships from a legal perspective and their seamless transition to concepts used to specify software requirements. No existing approach considers explicating and managing legal domain knowledge and engineering-legal coordination. Method: We conducted focus group sessions with legal researchers to identify the core challenges to establishing a regulatory RE approach. Based on our findings, we developed a candidate solution and conducted a first conceptual validation to assess its feasibility. Results: We introduce the first version of our Artifact Model for Regulatory Requirements Engineering (AM4RRE) and its conceptual foundation. It provides a blueprint for applying legal (modelling) concepts and well-established RE concepts. Our initial results suggest that artifact-centric RE can be applied to managing legal domain knowledge and engineering-legal coordination. Conclusions: The focus groups that served as a basis for building our model and the results from the expert validation both strengthen our confidence that we already provide a valuable basis for systematically integrating legal concepts into RE. This overcomes contemporary challenges to regulatory RE and serves as a basis for exposure to critical discussions in the community before continuing with the development of tool-supported extensions and large-scale empirical evaluations in practice. © 2024 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024. p. 262-271
Series
IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, ISSN 2770-6826
Keywords [en]
engineering-legal coordination, legal domain knowledge, regulatory requirement engineering, requirements engineering, software compliance, Reengineering, Domain engineering, Domain knowledge, Legal domains, Regulatory requirements, Requirement engineering
National Category
Software Engineering Law and Society
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-26910DOI: 10.1109/REW61692.2024.00041ISI: 001304537500035Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85203106811ISBN: 9798350395518 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-26910DiVA, id: diva2:1897908
Conference
32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2024, Reykjavik, June 24-28 2024
Part of project
SERT- Software Engineering ReThought, Knowledge Foundation
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 201800102024-09-162024-09-162024-10-28Bibliographically approved