REFSQ 2025
Mon 7 - Thu 10 April 2025 Spain

This program is tentative and subject to change.

[Context and Motivation] Software engineers can interact with users through digital channels (e.g., online forums) to exchange information about software products and achieve their requirements engineering (RE) goals. However, conducting RE manually is challenging due to the large number of users and the volume of their online feedback. [Question/Problem] Previous work has proposed tools to automatically extract useful information from online feedback (e.g., feature requests); however, these tools suffer from three major limitations: (i) an overlooked RE perspective in their design and evaluation; (ii) insufficient functional and performance capabilities; and (iii) missing evaluations of their ability to address RE needs. [Principal Idea/Results] This paper presents a vision for an intelligent RE software agent designed to overcome these limitations. Specifically, our vision explores how RE can guide the design and evaluation of software agents powered by large language models (LLMs), proposes an empirical assessment of LLMs for RE usage and the agent’s ability to meet RE needs. [Contributions] Our contribution is threefold: (i) a vision for an RE agent, (ii) identification of key challenges, and (iii) a roadmap to address current limitations.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 10 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change

11:30 - 13:00
Research Track - Session R7 - Requirements Elicitation and Analysis IIResearch Track at C2 - Sala Actes
11:30
30m
Talk
Detecting Redundancies between User Stories with Graphs and Large Language ModelsEvaluation Paper
Research Track
Lukas Sebastian Hofmann Philipps-Universität Marburg | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Alexander Lauer Philipps-Universität Marburg, Jens Kosiol Philipps-Universität Marburg, Arno Kesper Philipps-Universität Marburg, Amir Rabieyan Philipps-Universität Marburg, Gabriele Taentzer Philipps-Universität Marburg, Philipp Wieber Philipps-Universität Marburg
12:00
30m
Talk
Leveraging Requirements Elicitation through Software Requirement Patterns and LLMsEvaluation Paper
Research Track
Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Stefania Gnesi Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" , Federico Paccosi Università di Pisa, Carme Quer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Laura Semini Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Informatica
12:30
20m
Talk
Prompt Me: Intelligent Software Agent for Requirements Engineering - A Vision PaperVision Paper
Research Track
Jacek Dąbrowski Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei, Canada, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK, Faeq Alrimawi Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
Pre-print