Writing Aids for Agile Requirements Engineering - A Comparative Study Between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
This program is tentative and subject to change.
In agile software development, user stories (US) and acceptance criteria (AC) are popular ways of recording requirements. While guidelines have been proposed in the literature to assess the quality of US and AC, their correct application remains a manual task. In this work, we designed both a machine learning (ML) and a natural language processing (NLP) classifier for automatically assessing agile software requirements following quality indicators found in the literature. We evaluated their performance to improve the quality of requirements in a user study, as well as the users’ perceptions on the usage of such tools as writing aids. While improvements were notable in the quality of requirements written by participants, the improvements were more marginal when using the NLP classifier compared to the ML one. However, participants reported more satisfaction towards the NLP classifier for its ``explainability'' compared to the ML one.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Tue 2 DecDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
16:00 - 18:00 | Requirements Engineering and ManagementResearch Papers / Short Papers and Posters / Industry Papers at Room 1 | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Writing Aids for Agile Requirements Engineering - A Comparative Study Between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Research Papers Fabian Gilson University of Canterbury, Ella Calder University of Canterbury, Daniel Neal University of Canterbury | ||
16:15 15mTalk | Improving the Writing Quality of User Stories: A Canonical Action Research Study Research Papers | ||
16:30 15mTalk | From Machine Learning Documentation to Requirements: Bridging Processes with Requirements Languages Research Papers Yi Peng University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Hans-Martin Heyn University of Gothenburg & Chalmers University of Technology, Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg | ||
16:45 15mTalk | Towards Effective Automation of Issue–Commit Link Recovery: An Empirical Investigation Research Papers Risha Parveen Tampere University, Zheying Zhang Tampere University, Kari Systa Tampere University, Terhi Kilamo Tampere University, Ali Mehraj Tampere University | ||
17:00 15mTalk | Improving Behavior-Driven Development Scenarios: Empirical Evaluation of a Quality Assement Framework Research Papers Dillan Sears Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Konstantinos Tsilionis Eindhoven University of Technology, Yves Wautelet KU Leuven | ||
17:15 15mTalk | Influence of LLM Prioritizations on Human Decisions in Requirements Engineering Research Papers Amna Pir Muhammad Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Richard Berntsson Svensson Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Irum Inayat Chalmers | University of Gothenburg | ||
17:30 10mTalk | Enhancing Regulation-Adherent Requirement Engineering with Contextual AI: An industrial study Industry Papers Orhan Sirin Solita Oy, Malik Sami Tampere University, Tuomas Granlund Solita Oy, Jussi Rasku Tampere University, Zheying Zhang Tampere University, Pekka Abrahamsson Tampere University | ||
17:40 7mTalk | Privacy-Enhanced Software Design: Purpose-Aware UML Diagrams Short Papers and Posters Evangelia Vanezi University of Cyprus, Georgia Kapitsaki University of Cyprus, Anna Philippou University of Cyprus | ||
17:47 7mTalk | Requirements Communication at the Intersection between RE and UX Short Papers and Posters Anne Hess Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Gerald Heller Consultant and Trainer, Hartmut Schmitt HK Business Solutions GmbH, Cornelia Seraphin msg systems AG, Ismaning, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology | ||
17:54 7mTalk | PostItFlow: An Early Study on Agentic Workflow for Enhancing and Visualizing User Stories Short Papers and Posters Oshani Weerakoon University of Turku, Juuso Rytilahti Department of Computing, University of Turku, Tuomas Mäkilä University of Turku, Erkki Kaila Department of Computing, University of Turku, Shola Oyedeji LUT University | ||