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Re: Stories and Specifications

 

2009/9/9 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi All,
>
> After some experimentation, I've settled on a format I like for
> specifications. It's relatively lightweight and oriented towards
> a story-based approach. I've re-written one spec using this format
> and I'd appreciate your feedback...
>
> http://nunit.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dev:specs:merge_nunitlite_with_nunit
>
> As compared to the original format, which we borrowed from Ubuntu,
> this has the following changes:
>
> The 'Rationale' section has been combined with the summary and a
> back link to any Launchpad blueprints added.
>
> The 'Use Cases' section has changed to 'User Stories' and is now
> organized by who the user is for each story. We may want to
> develop a complete list of user personas for future stories.
> Note that a document can correspond to a single story or - as in
> the case of the example page - to multiple stories.
>
> The 'Design' section describes how we are approaching the problem.
> It is written at a relatively high level and doesn't go into the
> details of programming.
>
> The 'Implementation' section has been removed. I couldn't find
> a real use for it.
>
> The 'Outstanding Issues' section lists issues not yet resolved.
> After the issues are resolved, the resolution is reflected in
> other parts of the document and the issues section is deleted.
> That's why there are no issues on the example page.
>
> Will this work for us?

I think the wiki page is quite clear now. And the feature itself is
obvious from the description.

However I don't really see why using both the wiki and LP's system is
needed..? Wouldn't one of them suffice? Or is the "wiki"-technology on
LP too limited?

>
> Charlie
>
> PS: All our existing spec pages are indexed here:
> http://nunit.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dev:stories_and_specifications
>
>
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