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Robert C. Martin posting to OTUG (http://www.rational.com), subject: “«include» or «extend» ‘Just Say No’,” October 5, 2000.
Robert C. Martin posting to the newsgroup comp. software. extreme-programming, subject: “The Case against XP,” January 31, 2002.
Robert C. Martin posting to OTUG, op. cit.
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Ron Jeffries posting to the C2 Wild page Extreme Programming, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming.
Doug Rosenberg and Kendall Scott, Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach (New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 1999). Also, Doug Rosenberg and Kendall Scott, Applying Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML ( New York, NY: Addison-Wesley, 2001 ).
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A handy tip here is to make sure that everyone on the team has the Web page containing the requirements bookmarked in their Web browser. If they’re using Internet Explorer (IE), the bookmark (sorry, Favorite) should be placed in the Links folder so that it’s permanently visible on their toolbar.
Functional requirements documents are often referred to as functional specifications. If you want to know how to write functional specifications properly, refer to this short and pithy article (which also includes a very handy functional specification template) by Dino Fancellu:http://www.softwarereality.com/lifecycle/functionalspec.jsp.
Mr. Cynical says, “Absolutely does encourage and in fact ridicules any other approach.”
Ron Jeffries posting to the C2 Wiki page User Story, op. cit.
There is an implicit assumption here that we are talking about well-executed non-XP projects. Our comments wouldn’t hold true for bloated, waterfall-style, big-bang delivery projects, for example.
We’d like to suggest, if you decide to try this, that shaving your head and dancing on the sidewalk in long orange robes while tapping on tambourines is the most appropriate attire.
Ron Jeffries posting to OTUG (http://www.rational.com), subject: “C3 Project Terminated,” October 10, 2000.
Robert C. Martin posting to OTUG (http://www.rational.com), subject: “Scope Creep,” October 11, 2000.
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Stephens, M., Rosenberg, D. (2003). User Stories and Acceptance Tests. In: Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0810-5_10
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