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[Context and motivation] Approaches for requirements monitoring check the compliance of systems with their requirements during operation. [Question/problem] Despite many advances, requirements monitoring remains challenging particularly for very-large-scale software systems (VLSS) with system-of-systems architectures. [Principal ideas/results] In this research preview we describe key characteristics of industrial VLSS and discuss implications for requirements monitoring. Furthermore, we report on our ongoing work of developing a requirements monitoring infrastructure addressing these characteristics. [Contribution] Our infrastructure supports runtime monitoring of requirements across systems; variability management of requirements-based monitors; and the integration of monitoring data from different sources in a VLSS.
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Vierhauser, M., Rabiser, R., Grünbacher, P. (2014). A Requirements Monitoring Infrastructure for Very-Large-Scale Software Systems. In: Salinesi, C., van de Weerd, I. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8396. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05843-6_7
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