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But what if development starts not with code, but with a precise, machine-readable specification - and AI, generators and automated validation work together in a closed loop from requirements to implementation?\nIn this thesis, you will work at the forefront of modern software development in Ericsson Fintech, combining AI-assisted engineering with real, large-scale financial technology. From Karlskrona, we develop technology that serves more than 600 million registered wallet users globally. You will work alongside some of the strongest software developers in the region and gain hands-on experience with how AI, specifications, automation and software engineering can come together in a production-oriented development environment.\nThe thesis focuses on Ericsson Offline Payments (EOP), where a specification-centric development approach is being explored. Requirements are versioned in Git and connected to artifacts such as user stories, OpenAPI specifications and PlantUML interaction flows. AI-assisted authoring is combined with reusable guardrails, deterministic generation and automated validation.\nWhat you will do\nYour challenge is to investigate how well this specification-to-code loop works in practice - and help make it better. You will combine software engineering, AI-assisted development and empirical evaluation.\nMap where effort and lead time accumulate across specification authoring, code generation, hand-written integration, review and validation.\nCompare specification-driven, AI-assisted development with a conventional code-first approach on comparable development tasks.\nExperiment with improvements such as broader generator coverage, better AI guardrails, stronger validation gates or improved traceability.\nDefine meaningful measures for lead time, rework, consistency and defects, and use them to evaluate the approach.\nImplement and demonstrate selected improvements in a realistic development environment.\nPresent your conclusions and recommendations to an Ericsson development team.\nThe exact focus can be shaped together with the supervisors. 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