Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): African Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development
Articles

Human-AI Collaboration in Software Development: A Review of Current Practices and Future Directions

Dr Steve Lockey
Professor, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD, Australia
Prof. Chien-Ming
Professor, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD, Australia
Dr Emily Chen
Professor, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD, Australia
Dr Hassan Khosravi
Professor, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD, Australia
Dr Nell Baghaei
Professor, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, QLD, Australia
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Published 21-04-2024

Keywords

  • Human-AI Collaboration,
  • Software Development,
  • traditional software systems

How to Cite

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D. S. Lockey, Prof. Chien-Ming, Dr Emily Chen, Dr Hassan Khosravi, and Dr Nell Baghaei, “Human-AI Collaboration in Software Development: A Review of Current Practices and Future Directions”, African J. of Artificial Int. and Sust. Dev., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 92–107, Apr. 2024, Accessed: Dec. 23, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://africansciencegroup.com/index.php/AJAISD/article/view/20

Abstract

Unlike traditional software systems, machine learning models in software engineering must work coherently with a large number of heterogeneous stakeholders: developers, product managers, users, and other AI systems. Incorporating feedback from developers and users becomes an inseparable part of an ML model's entire lifecycle - from designing more precise and effective objective functions, feature extraction, model selection, to model evaluation and deployment. They are becoming increasingly common in several software engineering tasks such as code generation, writing scripts to simplify repetitive development tasks, analyzing unbalanced data, error detection, writing test cases, program summarization, and model training logging. The benefits and challenges of this line of work are yet to be fully realized. Given the high stakes involved with data-driven predictions in software development (rolling in incorrect bug predictions, incorrectly predicted API usage constraints at submission times, for example), it is crucial to identify the limits and opportunities of the human-AI coupling in software engineering, and to thoroughly understand its potential benefits and challenges to consider appropriate ways to leverage it.

The past couple of decades have brought about the growing trend of integrating machine learning (ML) models into software development tools. In order to make the best use of such tools, humans need to engage in a high-quality collaboration with AI systems. While the importance of human-AI collaboration in software engineering has been recognized by the HCI and software engineering communities, encouraging effective collaboration, especially with constrained data, as is the case in many software engineering applications, is still an open problem. In this work, we present a systematic review of the current use of machine learning models in collaboration with humans in the software engineering field. This research aims to understand and highlight the different ways in which humans work together with AI, in order to draw insights about the potential challenges, and discuss future directions to be addressed.

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