Prompt Me

Title: Prompt Me: Intelligent Software Agent for Requirements Engineering

Duration: 2024-2026

Summary: Requirements Engineering (RE) is a cornerstone of software development, ensuring that systems align with user needs. However, in a digital landscape where popular apps like WhatsApp serve over 2.7 billion users, collecting and analyzing user feedback is increasingly complex. With more than 15,000 comments submitted daily, the task of managing this information manually is both impractical and costly. Previous approaches have primarily focused on analyzing user feedback rather than enhancing user engagement on a larger scale. Existing tools often fall short in functionality and performance, leaving critical aspects of RE unaddressed. This project aims to explore innovative solutions that will redefine how software professionals engage with users. By utilizing advanced large language models, the focus will be on improving social interactions and enhancing the RE process. This fresh perspective on RE practices will aim to create methods that empower developers to effectively capture and address user requirements. Through empirical evaluations, the effectiveness of these new strategies will be assessed, paving the way for new RE methods that resonate with real-world applications.

Acknowledgements: This project is made possible through the SyMeCo award granted to Dr. Jacek Dąbrowski. SyMeCo is a postdoctoral fellowship programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND, managed by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work was supported, in part, by Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094_P2 and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund through the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme to Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software (www.lero.ie).

We are working on research publications for this project. Stay tuned! For now, check out some previous publications from our team members:

• Jacek Dąbrowski, Emmanuel Letier, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi: Mining and searching app reviews for requirements engineering: Evaluation and replication studies. Information Systems, 2023. DOI.
• Jacek Dąbrowski, Emmanuel Letier, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi: Analysing app reviews for software engineering: a systematic literature review. Empirical Software Engineering, 2022. DOI.
• Jacek Dąbrowski, Emmanuel Letier, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi: Mining User Feedback For Software Engineering: Use Cases and Reference Architecture. 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2022. DOI.
• Faeq Alrimawi, Bashar Nuseibeh: Meta-Modelling Kindness. IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2024. DOI.
• Faeq Alrimawi, Bashar Nuseibeh: , Requirements for designing kind spaces. IEEE 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, 2024. DOI.
• Faeq Alrimawi, Bashar Nuseibeh: Kind computing. IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, 2022. DOI.

• September 2024: The project officially kicked off.