ReqRAG: Enhancing Software Release Management through Retrieval-Augmented LLMs: An Industrial StudyEvaluation Paper
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[Context and Motivation]: Engineers often need to refer back to release notes, manuals, and system architecture documents to understand, modify, or upgrade functionalities in alignment with new software releases. This is crucial to ensure that new stakeholder requirements align with the existing system, maintaining compatibility and preventing integration issues. [Problem]: In practice, the manual process of retrieving the relevant information from technical documentation is time-intensive and frequently results in inefficient software release management. [Principal ideas/results]: In this paper, we propose a question-answering chatbot, ReqRAG, leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver accurate and up-to-date information from technical documents in response to given queries. We employ various context retrieval techniques paired with state-of-the-art LLMs to evaluate the ReqRAG chatbot in industrial settings. Furthermore, we conduct a qualitative evaluation of the results with engineers at Alstom to gain practical insights. Our results indicate that, on average, 70% of the generated responses are adequate, useful, and relevant to the practitioners. [Contribution] Fewer studies have comprehensively evaluated RAG-based approaches in industrial settings. Therefore, this work provides technical considerations for domain-specific chatbots, guiding researchers and practitioners facing similar challenges.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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16:00 - 17:10 | Research Track - Session R6 - Requirements Elicitation and Analysis IResearch Track at B3 - Teleensenyament | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Automatic Prompt Engineering: the Case of Requirements ClassificationPreview Paper Research Track Mohammad Amin Zadenoori CNR-ISTI, Liping Zhao The University of Manchester, Waad Alhoshan Al-Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Alessio Ferrari CNR-ISTI | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Exploring Generative Pretrained Transformers to support Sustainability Effect IdentificationPreview Paper Research Track Barbara Paech Heidelberg University, Peter Kaiser University of Applied Science Mannheim, Peter Bambazek Johannes Kepler University Linz, Iris Groher Johannes Kepler University Linz, Norbert Seyff University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW | ||
16:40 30mTalk | ReqRAG: Enhancing Software Release Management through Retrieval-Augmented LLMs: An Industrial StudyEvaluation Paper Research Track Md Saleh Ibtasham Alstom, Sarmad Bashir RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Muhammad Abbas Khan RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Zulqarnain Haider Alstom, Mehrdad Saadatmand RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Antonio Cicchetti Mälardalen University Pre-print |