This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 5 Sep 2025 11:00 - 11:30 at Salon de Actos - Agents in RE Chair(s): Farnaz Fotrousi

With the advent of generative LLMs and their advanced code generation capabilities, some people already envision the end of traditional software engineering because LLMs may be able to produce high-quality code just based on requirements a domain expert feeds into the system. The feasibility of this vision may be assessed by understanding how developers currently incorporate requirements when using LLMs for code generation - a topic that remains largely unexplored. We have interviewed 18 practitioners from 14 companies to understand how they (re)use information from requirements and other design artifacts to feed LLMs when generating code. Based on our findings, we propose a theory that explains the processes developers employ and the artifacts they rely on. Our theory suggests that requirements, as typically documented, are too abstract for direct input into LLMs. Instead, they must first be manually decomposed into programming tasks, which are then enriched with design decisions and architectural constraints before being used in prompts. Our study highlights that fundamental RE work is still necessary when LLMs are used to generate code. Our theory is important for contextualizing scientific approaches to automating requirements-centric SE tasks.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 5 Sep

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11:00 - 12:30
Agents in RERE@Next! Papers / Research Papers at Salon de Actos
Chair(s): Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
11:00
30m
Paper
From Requirements to Code: Understanding Developer Practices in LLM-Assisted Software Engineering
Research Papers
Jonathan Ullrich Fraunhofer IESE, Matthias Koch Fraunhofer IESE, Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen
Pre-print
11:30
20m
Paper
Intelligent Agents for Requirements Engineering: Use, Feasibility and Evaluation
RE@Next! Papers
Jacek Dąbrowski Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Wanling Cai Lero@Trinity College Dublin, Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK, Faeq Alrimawi Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
Pre-print
11:50
20m
Paper
ReqInOne: A Large Language Model-Based Agent for Software Requirements Specification Generation
RE@Next! Papers
Taohong Zhu , Lucas Cordeiro University of Oxford, Youcheng Sun MBZUAI
12:10
20m
Paper
Multi-Agent Debate Strategies to Enhance Requirements Engineering with Large Language Models
RE@Next! Papers
Marc Oriol Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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