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Generative AI is reshaping software work, yet we lack clear guidance on where developers most need support and how to design it responsibly. We report a large-scale, mixed-methods study of N=860 developers examining where, why, and how they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Rudrajit Choudhuri , Carmen Badea , Christian Bird , Jenna Butler , Rob DeLine , Brian Houck

Throughout their history, homo sapiens have used technologies to better satisfy their needs. The relation between needs and technology is so fundamental that the US National Research Council defined the distinguishing characteristic of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Soheil Human , Ryan Watkins

Software increasingly shapes the infrastructures of daily life, making requirements engineering (RE) central to ensuring that systems align with human values and lived experiences. Yet, current popular practices such as CrowdRE and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniela Damian , Bachan Ghimire , Ze Shi Li

This paper explores how generative AI can help automate and improve key steps in systems engineering. It examines AI's ability to analyze system requirements based on INCOSE's "good requirement" criteria, identifying well-formed and poorly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Oz Levy , Ilya Dikman , Natan Levy , Michael Winokur

Trustworthiness is a central requirement for the acceptance and success of human-centered artificial intelligence (AI). To deem an AI system as trustworthy, it is crucial to assess its behaviour and characteristics against a gold standard…

The advent of Artificial intelligence has promising advantages that can be utilized to transform the landscape of software project development. The Software process framework consists of activities that constantly require routine human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Mariyam Mahboob , Mohammed Rayyan Uddin Ahmed , Zoiba Zia , Mariam Shakeel Ali , Ayman Khaleel Ahmed

Software automation has long been a central goal of software engineering, striving for software development that proceeds without human intervention. Recent efforts have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance software automation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Liyi Cai , Yijie Ren , Yitong Zhang , Jia Li

Knowledge engineering is the process of creating and maintaining knowledge-producing systems. Throughout the history of computer science and AI, knowledge engineering workflows have been widely used because high-quality knowledge is assumed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Bradley P. Allen , Filip Ilievski , Saurav Joshi

The main focus of the requirements engineering (RE) literature has been on the technical aspects related to the RE projects. Furthermore, research has mainly focused on the specific methods for collecting the requirements for an information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Risto Paavola , Petri Hallikainen

Often during the requirements engineering (RE) process, the value of a requirement is assessed, e.g., in requirement prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off analysis. In order to support these activities, this research evaluates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Richard Ellis-Braithwaite

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for automating design artifact generation are increasingly used in Requirements Engineering (RE) to transform textual requirements into structured diagrams and models. While these AI tools, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Syed Tauhid Ullah Shah , Mohammad Hussein , Ann Barcomb , Mohammad Moshirpour

Responsible AI principles provide ethical guidelines for developing AI systems, yet their practical implementation in software engineering lacks thorough investigation. Therefore, this study explores the practices and challenges faced by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Matheus de Morais Leça , Mariana Bento , Ronnie de Souza Santos

[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave rise to agile approaches for RE. Security, at the same time, is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-06 H. Villamizar , M. Kalinowski , M. Viana , D. Méndez Fernández

As AI systems become integral to critical operations across industries and services, ensuring their reliability and safety is essential. We offer a framework that integrates established reliability and resilience engineering principles into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Saurabh Mishra , Anand Rao , Ramayya Krishnan , Bilal Ayyub , Amin Aria , Enrico Zio

Background: Requirement engineering is often considered a critical activity in system development projects. The increasing complexity of software, as well as number and heterogeneity of stakeholders, motivate the development of methods and…

Modern software has been an integral part of everyday activities in many disciplines and application contexts. Introducing intelligent automation by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) led to break-throughs in many fields. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sallam Abualhaija , Marcello Ceci , Lionel Briand

Requirements Engineering Methods (REMs) support Requirements Engineering (RE) tasks, from elicitation, through modeling and analysis, to validation and evolution of requirements. Despite the growing interest to design, validate and teach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Ivan Jureta

Requirements Engineering (RE) requires the collaboration of various roles in SE, such as requirements engineers, stakeholders and other developers, and it is thus a highly human dependent process in software engineering (SE). Identifying…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Dulaji Hidellaarachchi , John Grundy , Rashina Hoda , Kashumi Madampe

AI systems increasingly shape critical decisions across personal and societal domains. While empirical risk minimization (ERM) drives much of the AI success, it typically prioritizes accuracy over trustworthiness, often resulting in biases,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Diana Pfau , Alexander Jung

Open-source software (OSS) is foundational to modern digital infrastructure, yet this context for group work continues to struggle to ensure sufficient contributions in many critical cases. This literature review explores how artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 S M Rakib UI Karim , Wenyi Lu , Sean Goggins