Context: As the diversity and complexity of regulations affecting Software-Intensive Products
and Services (SIPS) is increasing, software engineers need to address the growing …

Product safety has been a concern in Europe ever since the early 1960s. Despite the long
and relatively stable historical lineage of product safety regulations, new technologies …

Background: The popularity of DevSecOps is on the rise because it promises to integrate a
greater degree of security into software delivery pipelines. However, there is also an …

Within a competitive environment marked by strong technological evolution, organisations
have to be compliant at the same time with several repositories, norms or standards relating …

[Context and motivation]: Understanding and interpreting regulatory norms and inferring
software requirements from them is a critical step towards regulatory compliance, a matter of …

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EDITORIAL Advances in system, software and service process improvement and innovation …

In recent years in the software industry, the use of safety-critical software is increasing at a
rapid rate. However, little is known about the relationship between safety-critical regulations …

Security and safety aspects are tightly related between them, and they are two major issues
to be tackle during the development of any system, especially safety critical systems. In fact …

Regulation of medical devices has been one of the most prominent initiatives of the
European Union in the health domain. The recent Medical Device Regulation …

Aligned with the worldwide trend of developing using small teams, most of the critical
software has been developed by small organizations, which demand a particular attention to …