Bridging User Story Sets with the Use Case Model

[en] User Stories (US) are mostly used as basis for representing requirements in agile development. Written in a direct manner, US fail in producing a visual representation of the main system-to-be functions. A Use-Case Diagram (UCD), on the other hand, intends to provide such a view. Approaches that map US sets to a UCD have been proposed; they however consider every US as a Use Case (UC). Nevertheless, a valid UC should not be an atomic task or a sub-process but enclose an entire scenario of the system use instead. A unified model of US templates to tag US sets was previously build. Within functional elements, it notably distinguishes granularity levels. In this paper, we propose to transform specific elements of a US set into a UCD using the granularity information obtained through tagging. In practice, such a transformation involves continuous round-tripping between the US and UC views; a CASE-tool supports this.

Research Center/Unit :

LouRIM

Disciplines :

Management information systems
Computer science

Author, co-author :

Wautelet, Yves

Heng, Samedi ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Digital Business

Hintea, Diana

Kolp, Manuel

Poelmans, Stephan

Language :

English

Title :

Bridging User Story Sets with the Use Case Model

Alternative titles :

[en] Bridging User Story Sets with the Use Case Model

Publication date :

November 2016

Event name :

3rd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MReBA)

Event place :

Gifu, Japan

Event date :

14-17 Novembre

Audience :

International

Journal title :

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISSN :

0302-9743

eISSN :

1611-3349

Publisher :

Springer, Germany

Volume :

9975

Pages :

127-138

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47717-6

Funders :

UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain

Commentary :

127--138

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