From Requirements to Architecture: An AI-Based Journey to Semi-Automatically Generate Software Architectures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14079v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:56:58 GMT
• Title: From Requirements to Architecture: An AI-Based Journey to Semi-Automatically Generate Software Architectures
• Authors: Tobias Eisenreich, Sandro Speth, Stefan Wagner
• Abstract summary: We propose a method to generate software architecture candidates based on requirements using artificial intelligence techniques. We further envision an automatic evaluation and trade-off analysis of the generated architecture candidates.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Designing domain models and software architectures represents a significant challenge in software development, as the resulting architectures play a vital role in fulfilling the system's quality of service. Due to time pressure, architects often model only one architecture based on their known limited domain understanding, patterns, and experience instead of thoroughly analyzing the domain and evaluating multiple candidates, selecting the best fitting. Existing approaches try to generate domain models based on requirements, but still require time-consuming manual effort to achieve good results. Therefore, in this vision paper, we propose a method to generate software architecture candidates semi-automatically based on requirements using artificial intelligence techniques. We further envision an automatic evaluation and trade-off analysis of the generated architecture candidates using, e.g., the architecture trade-off analysis method combined with large language models and quantitative analyses. To evaluate this approach, we aim to analyze the quality of the generated architecture models and the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed process by conducting qualitative studies.

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