UML or DSL: Which Bear Is Best?
This article describes the scenarios in which UML or DSLs should be used, and how each can be effectively integrated with the other.
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Requirements aren’t evil, we are.
As he is responsible to create the requirements, we set the customer as the sole owner of the definition of success. Therefore, we force the burden of success onto the shoulders of the very person who has come to us, the software developer, for help. If that isn’t evil incarnate? This post is about the […]
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Writing User Stories for Web Applications
This post introduces user stories as the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment.
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User Stories are a Reminder to Collaborate
User stories are not a highly documented series of requirements but rather a reminder to collaborate about the topic of the user story—in other words, in agile development (good agile at least), the documentation is secondary to the collaboration. Source: “New to User Stories?“, William F. Nazzaro and Charles Suscheck, ScrumAlliance.org
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New to User Stories?
Having coached traditional requirements, use cases, user stories, and agile development, I’ve fielded a lot of questions around the differences among the three major ways of specifying requirements, particularly by people migrating to user stories. This article compares requirements, use cases, and user stories against each other.
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Concordion
Concordion is an open source tool for writing automated acceptance tests in Java. There are also versions for .NET, Python, and Ruby.
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