Requirements elicitation for a blockchain vaccine supply chain management web/mobile application

Mindila, Agnes; Wafula, Joseph Muliaro; Ratemo, Harriet A. M.; Tabu, Collins; Charo, Joyce; Silali, Catherine

doi:10.12688/gatesopenres.12877.1

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“…A recent study by [103] proposed mechanisms that are mandatory to be executed in developing or gathering complete and reliable requirements, producing a transparent, secure, and effective blockchain framework for vaccine SCM. The study proposed requirements elicitation tasks for mobile and web-based blockchain frameworks for vaccine SCM.…”

Section: ) Vaccine Supply Chain Management (Scm) Sre Approachmentioning

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A Survey on Blockchain Acquainted Software Requirements Engineering: Model, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Farooq

Ahmed

Emran³

2022

IEEE Access

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Requirements are the basis of software development practices. Ambiguities in requirements lead a project to a point of failure or penalize it with a high budget and time for defect traceability. The ever-growing demand for advanced computing systems has increased the complexity of Software Requirements Engineering (SRE) practices. Blockchain systems require specialized SRE practices as the issues of Requirement Traceability (RT), developer/client confidentiality, and Requirement Negotiation (RN) typically exist in conventional approaches, which require more improvement. Moreover, blockchain technology incorporates the capacity to function as an infrastructure for the SRE framework providing transparency, security, and reliability. Even though the significance of studying blockchain in the context of SRE is evident, it is still in its infancy. None of the previous studies surveyed this domain to the best of our knowledge. We aim to summarize the scholarly contributions of blockchain acquainted SRE from 2015 to 2021 and to provide academia and practitioners with in-depth knowledge about this domain. In this article, we have provided a novel comprehensive review of the aspects of blockchain-acquainted SRE practices. We have presented SRE-based quality improvement factors and outlined the need for blockchain technology in this domain. Furthermore, we have classified SRE practices based on blockchain engineering. In addition, we have proposed a generic SRE model built on blockchain infrastructure along with its workflows. Similarly, we have provided implementation guidelines for the future development guidance of SRE applications built on blockchain technology. Finally, we have presented the current research challenges and provided future directions based on blockchain acquainted SRE.INDEX TERMS Software requirements engineering (SRE), software engineering (SE), requirements negotiation (RN), requirements traceability (RT), requirements validation (RV) software development life cycle (SDLC), software requirements specification (SRS), decentralized applications (DApps). TABLE 2. Requirements negotiation problem factors.

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Section: ) Vaccine Supply Chain Management (Scm) Sre Approachmentioning

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A Survey on Blockchain Acquainted Software Requirements Engineering: Model, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Farooq

Ahmed

Emran³

2022

IEEE Access

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“…In this situation, the rapid deployment of a vaccine is vital for pandemic control [3]. To manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, various problems must be overcome in terms of data transparency, trackability and traceability, immutability, audit, and trust [4,5]. The use of technology has become important in helping to meet human needs.…”

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Blockchain Based Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery using Smart Contracts

Rai¹,

Pakkala

et al. 2022

Preprint

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A blockchain is a continuously expanding list of documents known as blocks that are connected together via cryptography. A smart contract is a computer program that executes itself in accordance with the terms of a contract. In Traditional vaccine delivery systems, vaccine delivery information is not visible to all the supply chain entities, thereby prone to data tampering. Thus, transparency is the biggest concern in this system. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid launch of a vaccine and the implementation of a worldwide vaccination campaign is crucial, but their success depends on the availability of an operable and transparent distribution chain that all necessary stakeholders can assess. In the proposed work, we show how blockchain technology may be used to enable transparent tracing of COVID-19 vaccination registration, storage, and distribution and self-reporting of side effects by constructing a prototype using smart contracts.

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Evaluation of open-ended, clustering, and discrete choice methods for user requirements development in a low-income country context

Sarvestani

Gonzalez

Johnson

et al. 2023

Development Engineering

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Requirements elicitation for a blockchain vaccine supply chain management web/mobile application

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

A Survey on Blockchain Acquainted Software Requirements Engineering: Model, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

A Survey on Blockchain Acquainted Software Requirements Engineering: Model, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Blockchain Based Framework for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery using Smart Contracts

Evaluation of open-ended, clustering, and discrete choice methods for user requirements development in a low-income country context

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