A clear understanding of requirements is essential for effective software engineering. As AI becomes more integrated into development workflows, its ability to support developers in understanding and clarifying requirements becomes increasingly important. This master’s thesis explores how context-driven AI can help developers identify missing information and ask relevant questions before development begins.
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly integrated into software engineering and DevOps workflows. However, the effectiveness of AI-assisted development is often limited by incomplete, ambiguous, or poorly specified requirements. Service requests, change requests and development tasks frequently lack essential contextual information, forcing developers and AI systems to make assumptions.
Incorrect assumptions can result in rework, reduced software quality, increased development effort and lower trust in AI-assisted workflows. Although research has explored requirements elicitation and clarification techniques, it remains unclear how AI-driven questioning strategies can systematically improve requirement completeness and reduce downstream rework in practical software engineering environments.
The challenge is to determine how AI systems can proactively identify missing information and help developers ask the most relevant clarification questions based on the type and context of a request.
The Assignment
Your task is to explore to what extent context-driven AI can be used to effectively guide developers in asking relevant questions and clarifying requirements.
Previous research has investigated the use of LLMs for detecting and explaining ambiguities in software requirements, showing that contextual information and relevant examples can improve ambiguity detection. More recent work has also explored LLM-driven clarification and conversational requirements elicitation, but effectively determining which clarification questions should be asked based on the context of a development request remains an active research area.
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