A User Story Quality Measurement Model for Reducing Agile Software Development Risk

摘要

In Mobile communications age, the IT environment and IT technology update rapidly. The requirementschange is the software project must face challenge. Able to overcome the impact of requirements change,software development risks can be effectively reduced. Agile software development uses the Iterative andIncremental Development (IID) process and focuses on the workable software and client communication.Agile software development is a very suitable development method for handling the requirements change insoftware development process. In agile development, user stories are the important documents for theclient communication and criteria of acceptance test. However, the agile development doesn’t pay attentionto the formal requirements analysis and artifacts tracability to cause the potential risks of software changemanagement. In this paper, analyzing and collecting the critical quality factors of user stories, andproposes the User Story Quality Measurement (USQM) model. Applied USQM model, the requirementsquality of agile development can be enhanced and risks of requirement changes can be reduced.