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Feedback-Driven Requirements Engineering
This article describes a usage scenario for the Heuristic Requirements Assistant. The Heuristic Requirements Assistant (HeRA) is the primary research demonstration tool that illustrates the concepts of our groups requirements engineering research.
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A User Story Primer
This article explains the application of Scrum user stories. In agile development, the user story is a lightweight and more nimble substitute for what has been our traditional means of specifying software requirements – software requirements specifications, use case specifications, etc.
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Is Requirements Engineering Really Necessary?
In this position paper for the INCOSE 2011 conference, Karen Smiley explains her view on the necessity of requirements engineering. She wrote that “getting a good understanding of the problem to be solved into the heads of the people responsible for solving it is essential to good engineering.”
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Communication Content in Software Requirements Elicitation
This article presents a study performed to investigate the communication content of the current communication practices between developer and customer in Malaysia. The results of this study revealed some important notes on the practices of communication content during software requirements elicitation process in Malaysia.
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Business Analysis and Agile Development
Lisa Crispin interviews Mary Gorman about getting “just enough” information about desired behavior of a new feature without creeping into “Big Up Front Design” which is a balancing act for many Agile practitioners.
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User Story Length
Story writing is usually taught now as a singsong “As a I want so that .” The writer should then immediately document acceptance criteria in the form of a constraint list or automated acceptance tests. Many consider it poor form to create a story that someone outside the team can’t understand from its documentation alone. […]
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