DocumentCode :
1796573
Title :
Using goal net to model user stories in agile software development
Author :
Jun Lin ; Han Yu ; Zhiqi Shen ; Chunyan Miao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
fYear :
2014
fDate :
June 30 2014-July 2 2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
Agile methodologies use user stories to capture software requirements. This often results in team members over emphasizing their understanding of the goals, without proper incorporation of goals from other stakeholders or customers. Existing UML or other goal oriented modeling methods tend to be overly complex for non-technical stakeholders to properly express their goals and communicate them to the agile team. In this paper, we propose a light weight Goal Net based method to model goal requirements in agile software development process to address this problem. It can be used to decompose complex processes into phased goals, and model low level user stories to high level hierarchy goal structures. Our preliminary analysis and studies in educational software engineering contexts show that it can improve agile team´s group awareness to project goals and, thus, improve team productivity and artifact quality. The proposed approach was evaluated in university level agile software engineering projects. It has achieved an improvement of over 50 percentage points in terms of the proportion of high quality user stories generated by students compared to the standard user story template used in Scrum.
Keywords :
computer science education; software prototyping; agile software development; educational software engineering contexts; goal oriented modeling method; light weight Goal Net based method; software requirements; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Software; Software engineering; Unified modeling language; Variable speed drives; Agile Software Development; Goal Net; Software Engineering;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2014 15th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SNPD.2014.6888731
Filename :
6888731
Link To Document :
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