Wed 3 Sep 2025 14:30 - 15:00 at Salon de Grados - Agile and Model-driven RE Chair(s): Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

Requirement engineering in many IT services industries continues to be document-centric and heavily manual. Requirements specification documents contain details of product features, process flows, activities, rules, parameters, etc. Intricate knowledge of dependencies between these specification elements is necessary for effective change impact analysis. In document-centric change impact analysis, business analysts have to search for information across multiple requirements specification documents. Especially with business products having multiple customized product implementation scenarios, it is crucial to consider the context (client/ operating market/ geography) when analyzing the change request (CR), that makes the overall CR impact analysis process time-, effort- and intellect-intensive endeavor, and vulnerable to errors. To overcome these lacunae, we propose Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) based, automated Contextual Change Request Impact Analysis (ContCRIA). ContCRIA automates change impact analysis and generates a detailed CR impact analysis report. In this paper, we describe the overall approach of ContCRIA and its application on two real-world products thus bringing out its efficacy as well as lessons learned. Though the findings are shared in the specific context of two industry products, we believe, researchers, practitioners, and tool vendors will find the takeaways from this approach and experience applicable in other contexts too.

Wed 3 Sep

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14:00 - 15:30
Agile and Model-driven REResearch Papers / Industrial Innovation Track at Salon de Grados
Chair(s): Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa
14:00
30m
Paper
The Impact of Requirements Artifacts on Efficiency in Agile Development: A Case Study
Research Papers
Sabine Molenaar Utrecht University, Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University
Pre-print
14:30
30m
Paper
ContCRIA: NLP and MDE-based Contextual Change Request Impact Analysis
Industrial Innovation Track
Asha Rajbhoj TCS Research, Ajim Pathan TCS Research, Padmalata Nistala , Vinay Kulkarni Tata Consultancy Services Research
15:00
30m
Paper
LLM-Assisted Requirements Engineering in Agile MDD: Industry Insights and Validation
Industrial Innovation Track
Tjerk Spijkman , Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University, Sietse Overbeek Utrecht University, Steffen Beudeker fizor., Bente Molenkamp Utrecht University
Pre-print