# On the Viability of Requirements Generation from Code: An Experience Report

> Studies a RAG-based, human-supervised pipeline for recovering requirements and code traces from two projects. It also tests deliberate generation of unimplemented requirements and requirements smells (potential quality issues), exposing verification and labeling difficulties.

- Authors: Alexander Korn; Jone Bartel; Max Unterbusch; Andreas Vogelsang
- Venue: IEEE REW 2026 / AIRE
- Status: Conference paper
- Publication / posting date: August 2026
- Date source: IEEE-deposited Crossref proceedings month; first arXiv submission was June 24, 2026.
- First arXiv submission: June 24, 2026
- arXiv: 2606.25550
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- DOI: 10.1109/rew72749.2026.00023
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-20
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-20
- Original paper: <https://doi.org/10.1109/REW72749.2026.00023>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.25550v1>
- Project: <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32393787.v4>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-requirements-generation-viability.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-requirements-generation-viability/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-requirements-generation-viability/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-requirements-generation-viability/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

The 188 generated requirements come from a student web application and Mattermost Desktop, using one model and PhD evaluators. Prompt choices, accumulated feedback and author-resolved labels affect validity. Findings concern this small experience study, not all code-to-requirements methods.

## Why it fits this collection

Adds negative evidence and validation limits for recovering application specifications from code.

## Publication and review notes

Publication identity is verified through IEEE-deposited Crossref metadata and the official AIRE program; direct IEEE access returned an empty HTTP 202 response. Fulltext review uses arXiv v1. Figshare v4 declares CC BY 4.0 and its README describes data, prompts and an implementation.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25550>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2606.25550v1>
3. <https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1109/REW72749.2026.00023>
4. <https://aire-ws.github.io/aire26/program.html>
5. <https://alexkorn.de/papers/generation>
6. <https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles/32393787>
7. <https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/64911339>

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