ARLO: A Tailorable Approach for Transforming Natural Language Software Requirements into Architecture using LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06143v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:38:42 GMT
• Title: ARLO: A Tailorable Approach for Transforming Natural Language Software Requirements into Architecture using LLMs
• Authors: Tooraj Helmi,
• Abstract summary: Software requirements expressed in natural language (NL) frequently suffer from verbosity, ambiguity, and inconsistency.<n>This paper proposes ARLO, an approach that automates the task of mapping NL requirements to architecture.
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• Abstract: Software requirements expressed in natural language (NL) frequently suffer from verbosity, ambiguity, and inconsistency. This creates a range of challenges, including selecting an appropriate architecture for a system and assessing different architectural alternatives. Relying on human expertise to accomplish the task of mapping NL requirements to architecture is time-consuming and error-prone. This paper proposes ARLO, an approach that automates this task by leveraging (1) a set of NL requirements for a system, (2) an existing standard that specifies architecturally relevant software quality attributes, and (3) a readily available Large Language Model (LLM). Specifically, ARLO determines the subset of NL requirements for a given system that is architecturally relevant and maps that subset to a tailorable matrix of architectural choices. ARLO applies integer linear programming on the architectural-choice matrix to determine the optimal architecture for the current requirements. We demonstrate ARLO's efficacy using a set of real-world examples. We highlight ARLO's ability (1) to trace the selected architectural choices to the requirements and (2) to isolate NL requirements that exert a particular influence on a system's architecture. This allows the identification, comparative assessment, and exploration of alternative architectural choices based on the requirements and constraints expressed therein.

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