User Stories & Epic Stories

• Role, Goal, Benefit
  • As a resident in a COVID hotspot, I want to be alerted of all new cases so that I can keep those around me safe
• What's a good user story?
  • Specific role
  • Singular goal
  • The benefit is actually beneficial to the user
• Epic Stories
  • Abstract user story that encompasses several stories
  • Describes user problems at a higher level

Acceptance Criteria

• Descriptive (Yes/No)
  • The user is given an alert whenever there is an update to restrictions
  • The user can see the number of active cases in the community
• Scenario-Based
  • Given, When, Then
  • Given that the user has scanned in to a venue, when there is a case identified at the venue, then the user is informed

Story Points and Priorities

• Story Points
  • Relative measure of effort needed to complete a user story
  • Includes time taken to research how to do it
  • Fibonacci Scale - 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21
• Priorities
  • High Priority - Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Medium Priority
  • Low Priority

Example Gitlab Taskboard

https://gitlab.cse.unsw.edu.au/z5169779/taskboard-example-2511/-/boards

Timeline

• Using Story Points and Priorities, create a rough plan of how work will be completed
• Considerations
  • Sequencing of Tasks
  • Allocation of Tasks
  • Timespan of Tasks

Meeting Minutes

• Attendees
• (Optional) Agenda
• Discussion Points
• Action Items

Agile Practices

• Standups
• Asynchronous Standups
• Pair Programming

Why test first?

• Start with the end
• Tests-last simply justify the code written
• You want your tests to fail your code, not to pass your code

TDD with Java & Classes

1. Design your model (UML Diagram)
2. Write the class & method stubs
3. Write unit tests
4. Run the unit tests
5. Implement the functions
6. Pass the tests