Agile Requirement Modeling; Modeling Experiment; User Stories; User Story; 3-dimension; Agile methods; Agile Requirements Modeling; Controlled experiment; Model experiments; Natural languages; Overall quality; Software-systems; User stories; Computer Science (all)
Abstract :
[en] User stories (US) are short sentences written in natural language, structured around 3 dimensions (WHO/WHAT/WHY). They describe functionalities of the to-be software system and constitute the primary requirements artifacts used in agile methods. Originally, a few US templates have been suggested but these were written in a completely informal manner without guidance. In time some research has been made to furnish better guidelines when creating US and develop frameworks to increase their overall quality. Some of these frameworks are based on conceptual modeling, some others on linguistic approaches. The application of these frameworks in real life contexts nevertheless remains an open issue. To evaluate their applicability several experiments have been conducted in various settings. The present paper aims to summarize these experiments and suggest some others for future work.
Disciplines :
Management information systems
Author, co-author :
Tsilionis, Konstantinos ; KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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