EASE 2026
Tue 9 - Fri 12 June 2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Fri 12 Jun 2026 09:30 - 09:45 at JMS 607 - Session 1

Due to the textual and repetitive nature of many Requirements Engineering (RE) artefacts, Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven useful to automate their generation and processing. In this paper, we discuss a possible approach for automating the Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) process and produce a set of concrete system goals that can be mapped directly to API calls. Starting with high-level software documentation, we subdivide the process into three phases: actor identification, extraction of high-level goals, and extraction of low-level goals. For sake of simplicity, we focus only on functional goals. Our proposed architecture is based on a chain of LLMs fed with engineered prompts. Specifically, we compared Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot prompting. Another key element is the iterative refinement of LLM outputs through a feedback loop that integrates constructive critiques generated by the LLMs in a collaborative setup. While the generator agent is tested with all the different prompting techniques listed previously, the critic agent mandates the inclusion of shot examples in the prompt, which provide reference points for the assignation of a score to the results. We also measured cosine similarities between ground truth and shot examples in order to investigate their impact on the effectiveness of the prompting strategy. Although the pipeline achieved 61% accuracy in low-level goal identification—the final stage of the process—these results indicate the approach is best suited as a tool to accelerate manual extraction rather than as a full replacement. The feedback-loop mechanism with Few-shot applied to the generator agent outperformed standalone Few-shot prompting, with an ablation study confirming that performance degrades without the feedback cycle. However, we reported that the combination of the feedback mechanism with Few-shot does not deliver any advantage, possibly suggesting that the primary performance ceiling is the variety of the shot examples provided to the critic agent. Together with the refinement of both the quantity and quality of the in-context examples, future research will integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting to improve accuracy.

Fri 12 Jun

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09:00 - 17:00
Session 1Prompt-SE at JMS 607
09:00
15m
Day opening
Welcome by the Organizers
Prompt-SE
Vincenzo De Martino Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Giovanna Broccia ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Fabiano Pecorelli Pegaso University, Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg
09:15
15m
Short-paper
Prompting the Unknown: Probing the Limits of Generative AI for Novice Developers
Prompt-SE
09:30
15m
Full-paper
Evaluating LLM-Based Goal Extraction in Requirements Engineering: Prompting Strategies and Their Limitations
Prompt-SE
Anna Arnaudo Politecnico di Torino, Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino, Maurizio Morisio Politecnico di Torino, Flavio Giobergia Politecnico di Torino, Andrea Bioddo Politecnico di Torino, Angelo Bongiorno Politecnico di Torino, Luca Dadone Politecnico di Torino
09:45
15m
Full-paper
Prompt Engineering Strategies for LLM-based Qualitative Coding of Psychological Safety in Software Engineering Communities: A Controlled Empirical Study
Prompt-SE
Moaath ALSHAIKH Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Tasneem Alshaher Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Ricardo Vieira , Beatriz Santana , Clelio Xavier , José Amancio UEFS, Glauco Carneiro UFS, Julio Leite , Sávio Freire Federal Institute of Ceará and State University of Ceará, Manoel Mendonça Federal University of Bahia
DOI Pre-print
10:00
15m
Full-paper
Extract the Gold: An Empirical Study on Context Reset Prompting for Energy-Efficient LLM-Assisted Software Engineering
Prompt-SE
10:15
15m
Full-paper
Conventional Commit Classification using Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering
Prompt-SE
Sakib Al Hasan Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, H. M. Sazzad Quadir , Nurul Ahad Tawhid Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Coffee
Prompt-SE

11:00
15m
Short-paper
TDD Governance for Multi-Agent Code Generation via Prompt Engineering
Prompt-SE
Tarlan Hasanli , Shahbaz Siddeeq Tampere University, Bishwash Khanal , Pyry Kotilainen , Tommi Mikkonen University of Jyvaskyla, Pekka Abrahamsson Tampere University
11:15
20m
Other
Open Discussion & Wrap-up
Prompt-SE

11:35
50m
Other
Group Discussions
Prompt-SE

12:25
5m
Day closing
Closing
Prompt-SE