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Towards a Pattern Language to Embed UX Information in Agile Software Requirements

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Anathan Pereira,

Abner Cleto Filho,

Eduardo Guerra,

Luciana ZainaAuthors Info & Claims

EuroPLoP '21: Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

Article No.: 18, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/3489449.3489991

Published: 23 January 2022 Publication History

Abstract

The concern on how to handle agile software requirements have been explored from different perspectives. User stories (US) are being used as valuable artifacts to agile teams, being a short requirement description with its details complemented by other artifacts. Recently, agile professionals have demonstrated a great interest in integrating User eXperience (UX) information into agile practices because UX is an important cross-cutting quality requirement. These professionals still face difficulties in organizing and linking the UX information to User Stories which can introduce navigational distance, which is characterized by the effort to reach an information. This paper presents a set of patterns intending to support agile teams to embed the UX information in agile software requirements. Our patterns were proposed based on a case study conducting in an industrial setting. From this study results, we found out that by organizing the requirements and other UX information the agile teams introduced navigational distances between that information and the US’s bringing difficulties to accessing the information in virtual tools. These patterns describe practices to motivate agile teams to rethink their ways of organizing agile software requirements and the UX information in virtual tools to support the teams to find and retrieve the UX and requirement information easily. The practices cover the UX information in most of the abstraction layers, from the UX in more practical activities, for example in tasks, to more general UX information that can be used by several US’s.

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Choma JSharp HBarroca Lde Souza CMachado LZaina LGuerra EManns M(2022)Towards a Pattern Language for Improving UX Work in Software StartupsProceedings of the 29th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs10.5555/3631672.3631697(1-15)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2022
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Sereicikas RPereira APacheco VZaina LGuerra EGuerra EManns M(2022)C2-P2: A Chatbot-Based Approach for Navigation in Pattern CollectionsProceedings of the 29th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs10.5555/3631672.3631692(1-11)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2022
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Martinelli SNascimento NSouza JSales AZaina L(2022)UX Requirements Matters: Guidelines to Support Software Teams on the Writing of Acceptance CriteriaProceedings of the XXXVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3555228.3555230(398-408)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555228.3555230

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Towards a Pattern Language to Embed UX Information in Agile Software Requirements
1. Human-centered computing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools

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EuroPLoP'21: European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs 2021

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Choma JSharp HBarroca Lde Souza CMachado LZaina LGuerra EManns M(2022)Towards a Pattern Language for Improving UX Work in Software StartupsProceedings of the 29th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs10.5555/3631672.3631697(1-15)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3631672.3631697
Sereicikas RPereira APacheco VZaina LGuerra EGuerra EManns M(2022)C2-P2: A Chatbot-Based Approach for Navigation in Pattern CollectionsProceedings of the 29th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs10.5555/3631672.3631692(1-11)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3631672.3631692
Martinelli SNascimento NSouza JSales AZaina L(2022)UX Requirements Matters: Guidelines to Support Software Teams on the Writing of Acceptance CriteriaProceedings of the XXXVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3555228.3555230(398-408)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555228.3555230

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