Living user stories
User stories are widely used to keep track of actionable requirements. They are often maintained in external tools, such as Trello or JIRA. It is a tedious process to confirm which user stories or which parts of a specific user story have been implemented in the source code.
We have implemented a preliminary prototype of User Story Wall in an IDE that supports changing the status of user stories and moving the cards around in columns, such as in progress or finished.
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This prototype can be further improved to make story cards customizable, tie the user stories to the actual implementation, and several visual enhancements.
Tasks
- Cross-check existing required functional requirements and see how much is already implemented
- Enable visual creation of user stories on the wall view
- Improve the textual description of user stories with annotations in the wall view
- Customization:
- Story points
- Checklist for tasks
- Due-date
- Assign members
- Inline information about corresponding epic, use cases, etc.
This seminar project shall be extended as a thesis. During the seminar, we will cover some implementation tasks, the thesis will cover theoretical analysis of user story management tools for their support in IDE and further implementation.