An Industrial Case Study on Test Cases as Requirements

Elizabeth Bjarnason; Michael Unterkalmsteiner; Emelie Engström; Markus Borg

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_3

An Industrial Case Study on Test Cases as Requirements

Elizabeth Bjarnason, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Emelie Engström, Markus Borg

Blekinge Institute of Technology

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Sammanfattning

It is a conundrum that agile projects can succeed ‘without requirements’ when
weak requirements engineering is a known cause for project failures. While
Agile development projects often manage well without extensive requirements
documentation, test cases are commonly used as requirements. We have
investigated this agile practice at three companies in order to understand how
test cases can fill the role of requirements. We performed a case study based
on twelve interviews performed in a previous study. The findings include a
range of benefits and challenges in using test cases for eliciting, validating,
verifying, tracing and managing requirements. In addition, we identified three
scenarios for applying the practice, namely as a mature practice, as a de facto
practice and as part of an agile transition. The findings provide insights into
how the role of requirements may be met in agile development including
challenges to consider.

Originalspråk	engelska
Titel på värdpublikation	Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
Undertitel på värdpublikation	16th International Conference, XP 2015, Helsinki, Finland, May 25-29, 2015, Proceedings
Förlag	Springer
Antal sidor	12
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-3-319-18612-2
ISBN (tryckt)	978-3-319-18611-5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_3
Status	Published - 2015
Evenemang	Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 16th International Conference, XP 2015 - Helsinki, Finland Varaktighet: 2015 maj 25 → 2015 maj 29

Publikationsserier

Namn	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Förlag	Springer
Volym	212
ISSN (tryckt)	1865-1348
ISSN (elektroniskt)	1865-1356

Konferens

Konferens	Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 16th International Conference, XP 2015
Land/Territorium	Finland
Ort	Helsinki
Period	2015/05/25 → 2015/05/29

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

Tillgång till dokument

10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_3

EASE: EASE – Embedded Applications Software Engineering FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, LTH
Åkesson, J., Magnusson, B., Svensson Fors, D., Magnusson, E., Hedin, G., Kuchcinski, K., Andersson, P., Nugues, P., Robertz, S., Ekman, T., Loconsole, A., Orucevic-Alagic, A., Johnsson, B. A., Pfahl, D., Bjarnason, E., Söderberg, E., Sabaliauskaité, G., Jonsson, H., Janneck, J., Wnuk, K., Borg, M., Skoglund, M., Sulaman, S. M., Minör, S., Sandholm, T., Alce, G., Wallergård, M., Zhang, C., Barney, S., Martinsen, J. K., Grahn, H., Jalali, S., Ardö, A., Engström, E., Berntsson Svensson, R., Regnell, B., Runeson, P., Wohlin, C., Höst, M. & Wisbrant, J.
2008/09/30 → 2018/12/31
Projekt: Forskning

Best Paper Award
Bjarnason, Elizabeth (Mottagare), Unterkalmsteiner, Michael (Mottagare), Engström, Emelie (Mottagare) & Borg, Markus (Mottagare), 2015 maj
Pris: Pris (inklusive medaljer och utmärkelser)

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Bjarnason, E., Unterkalmsteiner, M., Engström, E., & Borg, M. (2015). An Industrial Case Study on Test Cases as Requirements. I Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming : 16th International Conference, XP 2015, Helsinki, Finland, May 25-29, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 212). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_3

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An Industrial Case Study on Test Cases as Requirements. / Bjarnason, Elizabeth; Unterkalmsteiner, Michael; Engström, Emelie et al.

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming : 16th International Conference, XP 2015, Helsinki, Finland, May 25-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, 2015. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 212).

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