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RITA: A Tool for Automated Requirements Classification and Specification from Online User Feedback

Published: January 16, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.11362v1

By: Manjeshwar Aniruddh Mallya , Alessio Ferrari , Mohammad Amin Zadenoori and more

Potential Business Impact:

Turns customer comments into product ideas.

Business Areas:
Usability Testing Data and Analytics, Design

Context and motivation. Online user feedback is a valuable resource for requirements engineering, but its volume and noise make analysis difficult. Existing tools support individual feedback analysis tasks, but their capabilities are rarely integrated into end-to-end support. Problem. The lack of end-to-end integration limits the practical adoption of existing RE tools and makes it difficult to assess their real-world usefulness. Solution. To address this challenge, we present RITA, a tool that integrates lightweight open-source large language models into a unified workflow for feedback-driven RE. RITA supports automated request classification, non-functional requirement identification, and natural-language requirements specification generation from online feedback via a user-friendly interface, and integrates with Jira for seamless transfer of requirements specifications to development tools. Results and conclusions. RITA exploits previously evaluated LLM-based RE techniques to efficiently transform raw user feedback into requirements artefacts, helping bridge the gap between research and practice. A demonstration is available at: https://youtu.be/8meCLpwQWV8.

Country of Origin
🇮🇪 🇮🇹 Ireland, Italy

Page Count
7 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Software Engineering