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Towards Human-Bot Collaborative Software Architecting with ChatGPT

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  • Aakash Ahmad
  • Muhammad Waseem
  • Peng Liang
  • Mahdi Fahmideh
  • Mst Shamima Aktar
  • Tommi Mikkonen
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Publication date14/06/2023
Host publicationProceedings of EASE 2023 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages279-285
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)9798400700446
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Abstract

Architecting software-intensive systems can be a complex process. It deals with the daunting tasks of unifying stakeholders' perspectives, designers' intellect, tool-based automation, pattern-driven reuse, and so on, to sketch a blueprint that guides software implementation and evaluation. Despite its benefits, architecture-centric software engineering (ACSE) suffers from a multitude of challenges. ACSE challenges could stem from a lack of standardized processes, socio-technical limitations, and scarcity of human expertise etc. that can impede the development of existing and emergent classes of software. Software Development Bots (DevBots) trained on large language models can help synergise architects' knowledge with artificially intelligent decision support to enable rapid architecting in a human-bot collaborative ACSE. An emerging solution to enable this collaboration is ChatGPT, a disruptive technology not primarily introduced for software engineering, but is capable of articulating and refining architectural artifacts based on natural language processing. We detail a case study that involves collaboration between a novice software architect and ChatGPT to architect a service-based software. Future research focuses on harnessing empirical evidence about architects' productivity and explores socio-technical aspects of architecting with ChatGPT to tackle challenges of ACSE.