Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?

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Main Authors: Muzammel, Chowdhury Shahriar, Spichkova, Maria, Harland, James
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Published: 2025
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author Muzammel, Chowdhury Shahriar
Spichkova, Maria
Harland, James
author_facet Muzammel, Chowdhury Shahriar
Spichkova, Maria
Harland, James
contents In requirements engineering (RE), personas are now being used to represent user expectations and needs. This systematic mapping study (SMS) aims to explore the most recent studies and to cover recent changes in trends, especially related to the recent evolution of Generative AI approaches. Our SMS covers the period between April 2023 and April 2025. We identified 22 relevant publications and analysed persona representation, construction, validation, as well as RE activities covered by personas. We identified that a number of studies applied AI-based solutions for persona construction and validation. We observed that template-based personas are becoming more popular nowadays. We also observed an increase in the proportion of studies covering validation aspects.
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spellingShingle Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
Muzammel, Chowdhury Shahriar
Spichkova, Maria
Harland, James
Software Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
In requirements engineering (RE), personas are now being used to represent user expectations and needs. This systematic mapping study (SMS) aims to explore the most recent studies and to cover recent changes in trends, especially related to the recent evolution of Generative AI approaches. Our SMS covers the period between April 2023 and April 2025. We identified 22 relevant publications and analysed persona representation, construction, validation, as well as RE activities covered by personas. We identified that a number of studies applied AI-based solutions for persona construction and validation. We observed that template-based personas are becoming more popular nowadays. We also observed an increase in the proportion of studies covering validation aspects.
title Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
topic Software Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15197