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Make the requirement testable.
Turn source text, technical standards, and deadlines into explicit product decisions.
Right to Repair software.
Engineering for named requirements, connected systems, and the operational evidence that has to survive after launch.
A parts catalogue that was never meant to be public.
The EU's Right to Repair rules require manufacturers of covered product categories to make spare parts, repair information and, in some cases, tools available to independent repairers and consumers on reasonable terms — obligations that assume a manufacturer already has a queryable parts catalogue and repairer-access system, which most don't; that data usually lives in an internal service-parts system never designed for external access.
Building the required-facing API means exposing product scope, parts availability and pricing without leaking internal cost data, authenticating independent repairers at whatever verification level the regulation requires, and handling consumer repair requests and fulfilment status in a way that produces the audit trail a market-surveillance authority can actually check.
Choose the requirement, not a package.
Each route starts from a distinct operational pressure.
How Right to Repair becomes working software.
Three decisions keep the project grounded in operations from the first workshop onward.
02
Fit the systems already in place.
Map owners, data sources, approvals, and failure paths before choosing the software shape.
03
Ship evidence with the feature.
Include the operational trail, documentation, and maintainable architecture the requirement demands.
Turn the difficult part into the first milestone.
If right to repair software is on your roadmap, describe what you run today and where the requirement gets stuck.