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Manually checking the compliance of process plans against the requirements of applicable standards is a common practice in the safety-critical context. We hypothesize that automating this task could be of interest. To test our hypothesis, we conducted a personal opinion survey among practitioners who participate in safety-related process compliance checking. In this paper, we present the results of this survey. Practitioners indicated the methods used and their challenges, as well as their interest in a novel method that could permit them to move from manual to automated practices via compliance checking.
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Castellanos Ardila, J.P., Gallina, B. (2020). A Personal Opinion Survey on Process Compliance Checking in the Safety Context. In: Shepperd, M., Brito e Abreu, F., Rodrigues da Silva, A., Pérez-Castillo, R. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58793-2_14
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