Revolutionizing Code: How Generative AI is Transforming Software Development Across Industries

GENAI IN REQS. ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION

GenAI can support to structure and write a draft requirements specification. However, to achieve a successful result, this needs to be an iterative and guided effort.

DO's:

• When structuring and generating the requirements document, focus the GenAI tool in one feature at a time.

• Manually prioritize the requirements. Doing so increases the chances of identifying requirements suggested by the GenAI tool that are costly to implement but bring little value to the client.

• Iterate. Prompt the tool → validate the output → refine the prompt. You’ll probably won’t fulfill all potential in the first prompt.

• Guide the tool as you would do with a trainee: Keep the scope narrow; check the progress/output frequently; provide guidance

DONT's

• Don’t perform these activities without a domain expert. GenAI cannot be relied to cover this gap

GENAI IN USER STORY GENERATION

When the team has decided to work in an agile methodology and the client has provided a requirements specification, using the GenAI tool to automatically convert the given requirements into the backlog user stories can result in significant time savings in this activity.

SOME ADVICE:

• Select a limited set of requirements covering a specific functionality. Do not try to generate the user stories for a large and complex set of requirements all at once.

• Be specific in what attributes the user story should contain.

• Manually validate the generated user stories, as the GenAI tool may not cover all intended scenarios