Modeling Negative User Stories is Risky Business

Kamthan, Pankaj; Shahmir, Nazlie

doi:10.1109/hase.2016.34

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“…This model provides an understanding of the types of negative uses that a software system could be subjected to, their probabilities of occurrence, and their consequences, if realized [6]. It helps create awareness of negative uses among requirements engineers, and provides the knowledge (including terminology) necessary for expressing a negative user story properly.…”

Section: ) Negative Use Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These models, of which some appear in an earlier work [6], are intrinsically interrelated and are informed by international standards.…”

Section: A Conceptual Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the attention on the abuser and the form for expressing abuser stories is inadequate. There is preliminary work on modeling negative user stories [6], which, in part, forms the motivation for this paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This model provides an understanding of the notion of negative user story, and highlights the elements necessary for expressing a negative user story properly [6]. For uniformity, a negative user story statement could be structured in controlled natural language text as: A negative role wants to negative goal to negative value.…”

Section: ) Negative User Story Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This model provides an understanding of the characteristics and behavior of a typical positive user (playing a particular role) [6]. For example, a persona (an archetypical user of a software system) can be such a model [8].…”

Section: ) Positive Role Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Characterization of Negative User Stories

Kamthan¹,

Shahmir

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract-In the context of an agile project, negative interactions are addressed by equipping the 'conventional' positive user story engineering process with a number of conceptual models, including those for negative user story and negative role. The challenges inherent in eliciting negative uses, negative roles, and negative user stories are highlighted. The cost of engineering negative user stories is analyzed. The relationships among positive and negative user stories are considered. For illustration, a detailed example is presented.

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Section: ) Negative Use Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These models, of which some appear in an earlier work [6], are intrinsically interrelated and are informed by international standards.…”

Section: A Conceptual Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ) Negative User Story Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ) Positive Role Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Characterization of Negative User Stories

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Shahmir

2016

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Improving the Process of Evaluating User Stories Using the Paraconsistent Annotated Evidential Logic Eτ

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New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing

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Systematic Literature Mapping of User Story Research

Amna

Poels

2022

IEEE Access

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User stories are a widely used artifact in Agile software development. Currently, only a limited number of secondary studies have reviewed the research on the user story technique. These research reviews focused on specific research topics related to ambiguity of requirements, effort estimation, and the application of Natural Language Processing. To our knowledge, a systematic mapping of all user story research has not been performed. To this end, we study the academic literature to investigate what user stories research has been performed, what types of problems have been identified, what sort of solutions or other types of research outcomes have been achieved, how mature the research is, and what research gaps exist. We followed Systematic Mapping Study guidelines to synthesize the currently available academic research on user stories. In total, we found 186 unique peer-reviewed studies, published in the period 2001-2021. We observed that research on the user story technique and its use had grown exponentially over the last seven years. Further, using a five-dimensional classification framework -requirements engineering activity, problem class, outcome class, type of research, type of publication -we observed several patterns in the classification of these studies across the different framework dimensions, which provided insights into the state-of-the-art and maturity of the research. We also identified four research gaps: the paucity of focused literature reviews; a lack of research on the role that user stories play in human cognition and interaction; a lack of comprehensive and mature solutions for resolving ambiguity issues with user stories early in the project; and a lack of validation and evaluation of proposed solutions. Several research opportunities are suggested, making our paper a useful reference for future research on user stories allowing researchers to clearly position their contributions.INDEX TERMS Requirements engineering, agile software development, user stories, systematic literature mapping.

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Modeling Negative User Stories is Risky Business

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

A Characterization of Negative User Stories

A Characterization of Negative User Stories

Improving the Process of Evaluating User Stories Using the Paraconsistent Annotated Evidential Logic Eτ

Systematic Literature Mapping of User Story Research

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