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Sun 27 Apr 2025 16:30 - 17:00 at 212 - Session 4: Requirements, AI, and testing

Requirements specification is a critical phase of the software development life cycle where requirements are identified and documented. To mitigate the ambiguity of natural language, templates can be adopted for the semi-formal specification of requirements. Automated specification support is important as it simplifies and expedites the specification process. However, developing the User Interface (UI) for template-based specification is demanding in terms of time and resources. In this paper, we propose a model-driven approach for generating UIs that support template-based requirements specification. We support the generation through mapping rules that link the template metamodel to the UI metamodel. We provide a systematic four-step process for the generation of UI from an input template, which includes preparation, components identification, rendering, and integration. We implemented our approach into our tool MD-RSuT for the automated generation of UI. To evaluate our approach, we compared it to manual UI development and assessed the quality of generated UIs. Our evaluation indicated that the approach provides multiple advantages over manual development, and the generated UIs adhere to UI design principles of structure, simplicity, visibility, feedback, tolerance, and reuse.

Sun 27 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
Session 4: Requirements, AI, and testingMO2RE at 212
16:00
30m
Talk
Exploring Large Language Models for Requirements on String Values
MO2RE
Aren Babikian University of Toronto, Boqi Chen McGill University, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University
16:30
30m
Paper
On the Automated Generation of UI for Template-based Requirements Specification
MO2RE
Ikram Darif École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, Segla Kpodjedo Ecole de Technologie Superieure
Pre-print
17:00
30m
Day closing
Wrap up and closing
MO2RE
Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Daniel Amyot University of Ottawa, Chetan Arora Monash University, Alessio Ferrari CNR-ISTI, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology
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