The adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) suggests major changes for software engineering, including technical aspects but also human aspects of the professionals involved. One of these aspects is how individuals perceive themselves regarding their work, i.e., their work identity, and the processes they perform to form, adapt and reject these identities, i.e., identity work. Existent studies provide evidence of such identity work of software professionals triggered by the adoption of GenAI, however they do not consider differences among diverse roles, such as developers and testers. In this paper, we argue the need for considering the role as a factor defining the identity work of software professionals. To support our claim, we review some studies regarding different roles and also recent studies on how to adopt GenAI in software engineering. Then, we propose a research agenda to better understand how the role influences identity work of software professionals triggered by the adoption of GenAI, and, based on that, to propose new artifacts to support this adoption. We also discuss the potential implications for practice of the results to be obtained.

翻译：生成式人工智能（GenAI）的采用预示着软件工程领域将发生重大变革，这不仅涉及技术层面，也关乎相关专业人员的人文层面。其中一个方面是个人如何认知自身与工作的关系，即其工作身份认同，以及他们为形成、适应和抵制这些身份认同所进行的过程，即身份认同构建。现有研究提供了证据，表明GenAI的采用引发了软件专业人员的此类身份认同构建，然而这些研究并未考虑不同角色（如开发人员和测试人员）之间的差异。本文主张有必要将角色视为定义软件专业人员身份认同构建的一个因素。为支持这一观点，我们回顾了关于不同角色的一些研究，以及近期关于如何在软件工程中采用GenAI的研究。随后，我们提出了一个研究议程，旨在更深入地理解角色如何影响由GenAI采用所引发的软件专业人员身份认同构建，并在此基础上提出支持这种采用的新工具。我们还讨论了预期结果对实践可能产生的影响。