Susan Elliott Sim, December 12, 2007

Spinning a Good Yarn: Recent Research on User Stories at UCI

For the last few months, Susan's research group has been working on research involving User Stories. They have talked to a number of agile practitioners, and it's time for them to present their work-in-progress and obtain feedback from a wider audience. This talk will introduce her group and describe three research projects.

The first one is Zelda, an Eclipse plug-in to support requirements traceability and program comprehension by linking user stories with source code.

The second project is a study that compares user stories as described in the literature with user stories in practice.

The final project examines the role of storytelling and narrative structure in user stories.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this announcement along to your colleagues.

Speaker

Susan Elliott Sim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.

Susan is currently involved in studying comprehension expertise, agile software requirements, and methods for evaluating software tools. She has conducted field studies at several software companies, including IBM, and Mitel.

For more information on Susan and her work see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ses

Location

The meeting will be held on the Magpie office in Westminster near 120th and I-25, approximately 10-15 minutes from Downtown Denver. For their address and links to maps and directions see:

http://www.magpieti.com/contact.shtml

Parking is plentiful and free in the building's lot.

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