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Using Completed User Stories to Estimate Future User Stories

In Scrum/Agile, the complexity of a user story can be estimated in story points. After completing some user stories, a programmer or team of programmers can use those experiences to better estimate how much time it might take to complete a future user story.

Validating User Stories: How much change is too much?

While the core of requirements development and acceptance criteria would ideally take place during the planning meeting in order to create a better estimate, Scrum encourages continuous interaction with the product owner throughout the sprint to validate and refine user stories.

Link between tests and user stories

I have not see these links explicitly stated in the Agile literature I have read. So, I was wondering if this approach was correct: Let a story be defined as “In order to [RESULT], [ROLE] needs to [ACTION]” then

Is using unit tests to tell a story a good idea?

So, I have an authentication module I wrote some time ago. Now I’m seeing the errors of my way and writing unit tests for it. While writing unit tests, I have a hard time coming up with good names and good areas to test. For instance, I have things like

How can I plan optimization tasks in Scrum?

Recently my Scrum team has received several requests for optimizing certain parts of our code. Looking at the software with a profiler found some spots where the code could be improved.

What can be used in lieu of use cases to gather requirements?

I’m a programmer currently working in rounds of meetings along with BAs and PM to gather/describe modules and functionality of our case management system; after a few meetings I saw that using ‘use cases’ would be a very very good fit to document many of the things and functions discuessed and/or proposed for the new system. When I suggested we needed to create ‘use cases’ so that we don’t forget what we said/concluded and also to have programers know what they should code, the leading BA mentioned don’t like ‘use cases’.