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User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16259v1
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:55:01 GMT
Title: User Story Tutor (UST) to Support Agile Software Developers
Authors: Giseldo da Silva Neo, José Antão Beltrão Moura, Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, Alana Viana Borges da Silva Neo, Olival de Gusmão Freitas Júnior,
Abstract summary: 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 may support the continuing education of agile development teams when writing and reviewing User Stories.
Score: 0.4077787659104315
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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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