Deep Learning Based Program Generation From Requirements Text: Are We There Yet?

• Published in: IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 1268 - 1289
• Main Authors: Liu, Hui, Shen, Mingzhu, Zhu, Jiaqi, Niu, Nan, Li, Ge, Zhang, Lu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.04.2022; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: code generation; Datasets; Deep learning; DSL; Natural language; Natural language processing; Object oriented modeling; Software; Software development; Software requirements; Source code; State-of-the-art reviews; Syntactics; Training; Unified modeling language

To release developers from time-consuming software development, many approaches have been proposed to generate source code automatically according to software requirements. With significant advances in deep learning and natural language processing, deep learning-based approaches are proposed to gene...