2025/07/17 by Dongming Jin, Zhi Jin, Jin, Dongming +4
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Engineering · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.13095
openalex publication_date 2025/07/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent advances in large pretrained models have led to their widespread integration as core components in modern software systems. The trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Unlike traditional software systems governed by deterministic logic, systems powered by pretrained models exhibit distinctive and emergent characteristics, such as ambiguous capability boundaries, context-dependent behavior, and continuous evolution. These properties fundamentally challenge long-standing assumptions in requirements engineering, including functional decomposability and behavioral predictability. This paper investigates this problem and advocates for a rethinking of existing requirements engineering methodologies. We propose a conceptual framework tailored to requirements engineering of pretrained-model-enabled software systems and outline several promising research directions within this framework. This vision helps provide a guide for researchers and practitioners to tackle the emerging challenges in requirements engineering of pretrained-model-enabled systems.