User Stories & UML

Question 1

What is “Big Design Up Front”? What are the steps in traditional requirements analysis?

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Question 2

What are some problems with the “Big Design Up Front” approach?

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Question 3

What are the following problems with the “Big Design Up Front” approach?
Requirements Checklist
Intangible Software

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Question 4

What are the following problems with the “Big Design
Customer decisions
Requirements Changes

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Question 5

What does it mean that software requirements = communication? What is the difference between a project relying on those who view the software from a business perspective and those who develop the software?

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Question 6

What is the solution to having different perspectives on a software project? How is decision making handled?

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Question 7

What are user stories? What are the three main components?

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Question 8

Who are user stories written by? What language are they written in?

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Question 9

Example of good and bad user stories:

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Question 10

What are some of the common templates for user stories?

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Question 11

Why is conversation important to constructing user stories? What do user stories represent?

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Question 12

What is on the front / back of a user story?

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Question 13

What is a user story estimation? What are story points?

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Question 14

What is acceptance testing with regards to user stories?

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Question 15

What is Story-Driven Development? How does it work?

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Question 16

What is release planning with regards to story-driven development?

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Question 17

Example of story-driven development release planning:

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Question 18

What is prioritization with regards to story-driven development?

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Question 19

What are the differences between BDUF and story-driven development?

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Question 20

Good user stories must follow the INVEST acronym. What are the components of the INVEST acronym?

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Question 21

What does it mean for a user story to be independent? What are some of the problems with dependent stories?

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Question 22

What does it mean for a user story to be negotiable? Why is this important?

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Question 23

What does the amount of information have to do with a user story being negotiable?

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Question 24

What does it mean for a user story to be valuable? Valuable to who?

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Question 25

What does it mean for a user story to be esimatable? What are some reasons why a user story may not be estimable?

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Question 26

How would a developers lack of domain knowledge stop a user story from being estimatable?

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Question 27

Why would a developer's lack of technical knowledge stop a user story from being estimatable?

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Question 28

Why would a story that is too big stop a user story from being estimatable?

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Question 29

What does the S in INVEST stand for? Why is this important?

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Question 30

What does the T in INVEST stand for? Why is this important? Should they be automated? What percent?

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Question 31

How would you summarize user stories:

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Question 32

What are some caveats with user stories?

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Question 33

What is UML?

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Question 34

What are the goals of UML?

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Question 35

What are UML diagrams? What do they allow for? What are some of the example?

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Question 36

What are UML class diagrams? Are class diagrams fully complete at the beginning of the development process?

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Question 37

What is a UML class diagram composed of?

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Question 38

Within a UML class diagram, what may attributes and operations include? What is the general form?

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Question 39

What is Associations in UML class diagrams? What are the different forms?

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Question 40

What is the difference between aggregation and composition in UML class diagrams? What do they look like?

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Question 41

What is generalization in UML class diagrams?

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Question 42

What is a dependency in UML class diagrams? What does it look like?

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Question 43

UML Class diagrams review

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