User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers

Giseldo da Silva Neo, José Moura, Hyggo Almeida, Alana Neo, Olival Freitas Júnior

2024

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

da Silva Neo G., Moura J., Almeida H., Neo A. and Freitas Júnior O. (2024). User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-697-2, SciTePress, pages 51-62. DOI: 10.5220/0012619200003693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu24,
author={Giseldo da Silva Neo and José Moura and Hyggo Almeida and Alana Neo and Olival Freitas Júnior},
title={User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2024},
pages={51-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012619200003693},
isbn={978-989-758-697-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers
SN - 978-989-758-697-2
AU - da Silva Neo G.
AU - Moura J.
AU - Almeida H.
AU - Neo A.
AU - Freitas Júnior O.
PY - 2024
SP - 51
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0012619200003693
PB - SciTePress