Tutorial 1: Promotion of Open Science in Requirements Engineering: Leveraging the Open Research Knowledge Graph for FAIR Scientific Information

Presenters: Oliver Karras (Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology), Alessio Ferrari (CNR-ISTI), Davide Fucci (Blekinge Institute of Technology) and Davide Dell’Anna (Utrecht University)

Abstract: Despite improved digital access to publications as digitized artifacts, they remain document-based and often behind paywalls, impeding open science. Researchers must push beyond the established boundary of publications as digitized documents. Open science infrastructures support them in organizing and (re-)using publications and their information so that they are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) for humans and machines in the long term. The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) is one sustainably governed infrastructure for FAIR scientific information, with successful use cases in requirements engineering (RE). The tutorial aims to familiarize the participants with open science and empower them to leverage the ORKG for FAIR scientific information. The half-day tutorial consists of three sessions: 1) A short introduction to open science and the ORKG regarding their importance, benefits, and incentives, 2) An interactive session with hands-on exercises for learning skills and practical experiences to leverage the ORKG, and 3) A feedback session for reflection. The tutorial raises awareness for open science in RE, introduces the ORKG, fosters networking, and, in the best case, establishes future collaborations. The participants become familiar with open science and the ORKG by learning skills and gaining practical experience to leverage the ORKG themselves. The transition away from digitized documents and towards FAIR scientific information is a long-term endeavor. We must gradually sensitize researchers to this transition while guiding and empowering them to leverage existing solutions as an integral part of their work. The tutorial pursues this endeavor to promote open science in RE.

Required equipment: Participants need a laptop with internet access and a browser

Date: Monday, June 24th (First half)

Tutorial 2: Modern Teaching of Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis

Presenters: Jean-Michel Bruel (University of Toulouse / CNRS-IRIT) and Sébastien Mosser (McMaster University)

Abstract: If a system is a solution, requirements state the problem. Since a solution to the wrong problem is useless, stating the problem is as important as building the solution. Hence the centrality of requirements engineering — also known as business analysis — in information technology, especially in the future era of massive use of LLMs, where prompting engineering will be a required skill. Good requirements are among the most treasurable assets of a project. Bad requirements hamper it at best and doom it at worst. Nevertheless, in today’s curriculum, requirements engineering is often perceived by students as boring and superficial. This tutorial aims to combine (i) an organised and systematic approach towards writing requirements so that they support rather than hinder the projects, and (ii) a teaching framework that illustrates the importance of benefiting, also at that level, from versioning and management tools such as Git repositories. It will provide the attendees with concrete and immediately applicable guidance, both for practitioners and for teachers.

Date: Monday, June 24th (First half)

Tutorial 3: Prompt Engineering

Presenters: Travis Breaux (Carnegie Mellon University)

Abstract:This tutorial is a half-day tutorial to introduce attendees to the history of large language models (LLMs) leading up to the discovery of in-context learning (ICL). This includes popular techniques used by commercial service providers to instruction-tune and align LLMs prior to deployment through public APIs. Attendees will learn how to write prompts by taking advantage of ICL prompt design patterns, including trigger words, demonstrations, and chain-of thought prompting. The tutorial will also cover task decomposition, in which complex tasks are decomposed into multiple, simple prompts to improve performance.

Date: Monday, June 24th (Second half)

Tutorial 4: Writing Effective Requirements

Presenter: Michael C. Panis (Teradyne, Inc.)

Abstract: Even organizations that apply requirements engineering processes do not always provide the necessary training to employees so that they can clearly communicate requirements. This tutorial focuses on some of the techniques and skills necessary to ensure written requirements will be interpreted as intended.

Date: Tuesday, June 25th (Full day)

Tutorial 5: Security Requirement Engineering for Socio-Technical Systems

Presenters: Mattia Salnitri (Politecnico di Milano) and Erlend Andreas Gjære (Secure Practice AS)

Abstract: In the past decade, there has been a notable increase in the integration of human users as active components within technical systems, giving rise to what is now recognized as sociotechnical systems. However, the advancement of security measures has not kept pace with this integration, resulting in humans becoming the vulnerable link in the security chain. To address this issue, it is imperative to engineer security requirements that encompass the characteristics of individuals, thereby guiding the design of secure socio-technical systems that are tailored to accommodate their human components. This tutorial will present socio-technical systems, the security criticalities related to their human part, and how to address them. The tutorial is targeted to academics and practitioners, with interactive activities that will guide attendees in the specification of security requirements for socio-technical systems, allow them to experience cyber and social attacks and direct them to incident response actions.

Date: Wednesday, June 26th (First half)