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Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way

You're reading from   Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way Bridge the gap between software requirements and executable specifications to deliver successful projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206465
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fred Heath Fred Heath
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: The Requirements Domain 2. Chapter 2: Impact Mapping and Behavior-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Writing Fantastic Features with the Gherkin Language 4. Chapter 4: Crafting Features Using Principles and Patterns 5. Chapter 5: Discovering and Analyzing Requirements 6. Chapter 6: Organizing Requirements 7. Chapter 7: Feature-First Development 8. Chapter 8: Creating Automated Verification Code 9. Chapter 9: The Requirements Life Cycle 10. Chapter 10: Use Case: The Camford University Paper Publishing System 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scripting Scenarios

Scenarios are a feature's essence. They reflect the change in the feature's behavior under different circumstances. We call this section Scripting Scenarios as Scenarios are written similarly to a stage play or film script. They are written using prompts and specific actions for particular actors. Before we discuss how to script our Scenarios, let's see how we can discover them first…

Discovering Scenarios

A good way to visualize scenarios is by using the metaphor of a Rubik's cube. Imagine that your feature is a Rubik's cube. You have it in your hands and you turn it around, looking at it from different angles. You notice how each side has different colors in different arrangements. It's the same cube, but each time you turn it, you discover some new image patterns and cell arrangements:

Fig. 3.1 – Feature as a Rubik's cube

Fig. 3.1 – Feature as a Rubik's cube

When discovering Scenarios, we follow a similar mental...

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