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[Context and motivation] Making acceptable effort estimates of achieving regulatory compliance of requirements in large-scale systems engineering projects has eluded project management. [Problem] Traditional effort estimation tools working with LOC, function-point, and object point metrics do not consider requirements compliance work. Consequences include: poor estimates, project delays, cost overruns, quality problems, and customer dissatisfaction. [Principal ideas/results] In this short paper, we describe a novel methodological approach for deriving metrics for estimating the effort for conducting requirements compliance work. This method was created from analysing a number of impediments to achieving compliance in a large systems engineering project, along with their associated metrics. [Contribution] The methodological approach described is the key contribution. It lays a foundation for deriving metrics needed for creating an effort-estimation model for compliance work in the RE process.
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Nekvi, M.R.I., Noorwali, I., Madhavji, N.H. (2016). Deriving Metrics for Estimating the Effort Needed in Requirements Compliance Work. In: Daneva, M., Pastor, O. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9619. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_9
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