From Chat to Interview: Agentic Requirements Elicitation with an Experience Typology
Requirements elicitation interviews are crucial in requirements engineering but still heavily rely on experienced requirements analysts. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have created new opportunities for automating this process. However, relying solely on LLMs for free-form conversations provides limited support for structured interviews, often leading to redundant questions and missed implicit requirements. By taking website applications (i.e., WebApp) as an example, this paper proposes TypoAgent, a structured requirements interview agent. By analyzing WebApp requirements artifacts, TypoAgent automatically constructs a reusable experience typology tree, which organizes requirement dimensions into a hierarchical inquiry space to support systematic interview planning. Guided by this typology tree, TypoAgent further applies initial priority ranking to align with the user’s underspecified initial intent, and adopts context-aware dynamic reranking to adaptively adjust questioning directions during multi-turn interactions. In addition, TypoAgent introduces a pruning mechanism to reduce ineffective questions and improve interview efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that TypoAgent significantly outperforms existing baselines in both implicit requirement elicitation effectiveness and questioning efficiency. Moreover, ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of each key design choice in TypoAgent. We believe that TypoAgent is highly transferable and can be extended to various domain conversational requirements elicitation scenarios.
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13:45 - 15:15 | Requirements Elicitation: Methods & ValidationResearch Papers at A-1600 Chair(s): Andrea Wohlgemuth Utrecht University & FH Dortmund & GEBHARDT Intralogistics Group | ||
13:45 30mTalk | Debugging Requirements Interview Scripts: A Framework for Quality Assessment Research Papers Aref El-Maarawi Tefur Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Alessio Ferrari University College Dublin (UCD) and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University, Walid Maalej University of Hamburg | ||
14:15 30mTalk | Under Pressure: Navigating Human Factors in AI-Supported Requirements Validation Research Papers Fabian Romano Rusch Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Lisa Stickel Ipsos GmbH, Frank Mantwill Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg | ||
14:45 30mTalk | From Chat to Interview: Agentic Requirements Elicitation with an Experience Typology Research Papers Dongming Jin Peking University, China, Zhi Jin Peking University, Wuhan University, Yaotian Yang Beijing Forestry University, Linyu Li Key Lab of High-Confidence of Software Technologies (PKU), Ministry of Education, Fang Zheng Key Lab of High-Confidence of Software Technologies (PKU), Ministry of Education, Yuanpeng He Key Lab of High-Confidence of Software Technologies (PKU), Ministry of Education, Wenchun Jing Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Xiaohong Chen East China Normal University | ||
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