From the course: Software Design: Developing Effective Requirements
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User-stories
From the course: Software Design: Developing Effective Requirements
User-stories
- [Instructor] When we start exploring properties of the software we plan to develop in terms of functional or nonfunctional requirements, we often adopt a system-oriented approach. We express requirements as system shall do this or system shall do that, so for example, in our university event scheduling system, we articulated the requirements that the system shall auto-populate a student's calendar with their class schedule. But when you begin to talk to the users and they start telling us what they want, a new perspective begins to develop, user-oriented perspective. We begin to define the requirements in terms of what they want to do with the system. When you want to express a requirement from the user's perspective, you can state it as a user story. User stories represent a summary of conversation that you've had with the user, a personalized expression of what a user wants and why. It is a simple, convenient…
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