Forging High-Quality User Stories: Towards a Discipline for Agile Requirements
Publication date
2015
Authors
Lucassen, Garm
Dalpiaz, Fabiano
Van Der Werf, Jan Martijn
Brinkkemper, S.
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taverne
Abstract
User stories are a widely used notation for formulating requirements in agile development projects. Despite their popularity in industry, little to no academic work is available on assessing their quality. The few existing approaches are too generic or employ highly qualitative metrics. We propose the Quality User Story Framework, consisting of 14 quality criteria that user story writers should strive to conform to. Additionally, we introduce the conceptual model of a user story, which we rely on to design the AQUSA software tool. AQUSA aids requirements engineers in turning raw user stories into higher-quality ones by exposing defects and deviations from good practice in user stories. We evaluate our work by applying the framework and a prototype implementation to three user story sets from industry.
Keywords
Taverne, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Lucassen, G, Dalpiaz, F, Werf, J M V D & Brinkkemper, S 2015, Forging High-Quality User Stories: Towards a Discipline for Agile Requirements. in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2015). IEEE, pp. 126-135. https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2015.7320415