Authors:
Giseldo da Silva Neo
1
;
José Moura
2
;
Hyggo Almeida
2
;
Alana Neo
1
and
Olival Freitas Júnior
3
Affiliations:
1
Campus Viçosa, Federal Institute of Alagoas, Viçosa, Brazil
;
2
Center for Electrical and Computer Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil
;
3
Institute of Computing, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
Keyword(s):
User Story, Story Points, Education, Recommendation, Readability.
Abstract:
User Stories record what must be built in projects that use agile practices. User Stories serve both to estimate effort, generally measured in Story Points, and to plan what should be done in a Sprint. Therefore, it is essential to train software engineers on how to create simple, easily readable, and comprehensive User Stories. For that reason, we designed, implemented, applied, and evaluated a web application called User Story Tutor (UST). UST checks the description of a given User Story for readability, and if needed, recommends appropriate practices for improvement. UST also estimates a User Story effort in Story Points using Machine Learning techniques. As such UST may support the continuing education of agile development teams when writing and reviewing User Stories. UST’s ease of use was evaluated by 40 agile practitioners according to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and AttrakDiff. The TAM evaluation averages were good in almost all considered variables. Application of
the AttrakDiff evaluation framework produced similar good results. Apparently, UST can be used with good reliability. Applying UST to assist in the construction of User Stories is a viable technique that, at the very least, can be used by agile developments to complement and enhance current User Story creation.
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