Abstract
Blockchain is an emergent technology and has the potential to replace the intermediaries in the asset transaction business. This is the reason many companies have started adopting and experimenting with blockchain. No standard practice has been established yet to implement this new transparent and distributed ledger technology which hinders its wide acceptance despite being beneficial to secure the digital assets in a verifiable and permanent way. Though it has transformed the way the business operates, still it is considered to be a disruptive technology. It has various challenges to overcome such as scalability, non-repudiation, data privacy, and flexibility which should be addressed in the early stage of implementation of blockchain infrastructure. These issues need to be dealt with specific techniques as the existing system development process doesn’t integrate many of the aspects of this relatively new blockchain technology. Before incorporating blockchain technology in the existing system, one must address all the issues in the requirement analysis phase of the system. This paper presents a case study on blockchain enabled medical supply chain and focuses on the identification of non-functional requirements for blockchain enabled systems which further facilitates the software engineers for requirements specification and system design.
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Khatter, K., DevanjaliRelan Non-functional requirements for blockchain enabled medical supply chain. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 13, 1219–1231 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-021-01418-y
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