Abstract

AbstractThe use of user stories for expressing software requirements, in agile software projects and beyond, has only increased over the years. However, the results on the quality of user stories have been mixed. This paper proposes a semiotics-based, technology-and-tool-independent, semi-formal framework, comprising interrelated conceptual (meta-)models that provide an understanding to the concept of user story, user story context, user story quality, and violations of user story quality. In doing so, it elicits the unique nature of user story, highlights the challenges in modeling and addressing user story quality, presents the results of a preliminary survey of students and professionals on the use of user story, and, through various real-world examples, illustrates violations of user story quality.KeywordsAgile methodologyConceptual modelingContinuous requirements engineeringInteractive systemRequirements debtStandard

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