Introduction to Agile Software Requirements
Abhilash ChandranDevelopment Manager
Xerox
What are we going to discuss today?
• What stories are• Writing User Story• Estimation• Workshop
Books …
Product Vision
• What the product should look like when ultimately finished– Type of features supported– Type of users– Market share etc.
• Continuous change because of – New knowledge– New customer base– New or changing market conditions
Product Vision…
• Should contain– Product features (as would be listed on the
product box or web site)– Target market/customers– Key differentiators
Cone of uncertainty
Continuous iterations
• Traveling at night• Embrace the change• Write only what you have• Do only what you know• Add new insights
User Roles
• A user role is any type of user that interacts with the system
• Identifying the different types of Users is the first step in Agile Product Management
• Lack of a clear understanding of User Roles – critical requirements can be missed or
misunderstood– Higher probability of developing a wrong software
with unwanted features .
User story
• A sentence or a paragraph that describes functionality of the system from the user’s perspective
As a <type of user>I can <perform some task>[so that I can <achieve some goal>]
User Story…
• As a user,I want to reserve a hotel room
• As a frequent flyer,I want to rebook a past trip so that I save time booking trips I take often.
3 C’s
• Card: The written description of the story• Conversation: Verbal discussions that bring
out further details of the system• Confirmation: the conditions of satisfaction
that are used to determine when the feature is complete– Should also include key conditions or constraints
Conversation
• As a user, I can cancel a reservation.– Does the user get a full or partial refund?– Is the refund to her credit card or is it site credit?– How far ahead must the reservation be cancelled?– Is that the same for all hotels?– For all site visitors? Can frequent travellers cancel
later?– Is a confirmation provided to the user?– How?
Conditions of satisfaction
• As a user, I can cancel a reservation.– Verify that a premium member can cancel the
same day without a fee.– Verify that a non-premium member is charged
10% for a same-day cancellation.– Verify that an email confirmation is sent.– Verify that the hotel is notified of any cancellation
Split Stories
• As a user, I can cancel a reservation.– As a premium site member,
I can cancel a reservation up to the last minute.– As a site visitor, I am emailed a confirmation of
any cancelled reservation.
Epic
• A very large user story
• As a user, I can cancel a reservation.
Start with Epic
• MMF – Minimum Marketable Feature• A basic set of features required for product
which can be marketed
Estimation
• Planning Poker– It is about size not duration– Identify the relative value
Activity
• User story breakdown• Estimation
Part II
• Workshop on Clean code
Book…
Test Driven Development
Demo
• Demo with C# and MS Unit Test
Demo
• Demo with C# & Specflow
Behaviour-driven development
SOLID Principles
• Stands for five basic principles of object-oriented programming and design
• Are guidelines that can be applied while working on software to improve code quality
• Helps in – low coupling, – high cohesion – strong encapsulation
SRP
• Single responsibility principleA class should have only a single responsibility (i.e. only one potential change in the software's specification should be able to affect the specification of the class)
OCP
• Open/closed principleSoftware entities … should be open for extension, but closed for modification
LSP
• Liskov substitution principleObjects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that program
ISP
• Interface segregation principleMany client-specific interfaces are better than one general-purpose interface.
DIP
• Dependency inversion principleOne should “Depend upon Abstractions. Do not depend upon concretions.
Questions
Contact Me
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