ChatGPT Prompt Patterns for Improving Code Quality, Refactoring, Requirements Elicitation, and Software Design

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.07839
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Jules White; Sam Hays; Quchen Fu; Jesse Spencer-Smith; Douglas C. Schmidt
• Keywords: Code refactoring; Software design pattern

This paper presents prompt design techniques for software engineering, in the form of patterns, to solve common problems when using large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT automate engineering activities, ensuring code is decoupled from third-party libraries and simulating a web application API before it implemented. provides two contributions research on LLMs engineering. First, catalog patterns that classifies according types they solve. Second, explores several have been applied improve requirements elicitation, rapid prototyping, quality, refactoring, system design.