Introducing a New Agile Development for Web Applications Using a Groupware as Example

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is introduce a new agile methodology for Web development based on User Stories and that use some concepts of Scrum like Product Backlog and Sprint. The methodology is divided in three disciplines: Communication, Modeling and Construction; each one refining the User Stories, from requirements specification with the User and the use of the Navigation Model and Story Cards until the execution of these User Stories to guide the coding. Thus, the development team can use these User Stories as acceptance tests, which represent the User behavior when using the system. The code written to pass in those tests can generate, through reverse engineering, design for the team to evaluate how the Web application is being developed and evolved. In the end, the team has more guarantees that the Web application developed represents what the User wanted in the beginning.KeywordsAgile ProcessUser StoryNavigation ModelWeb Development