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Scrumlity: An Agile Framework Based on Quality of User Stories

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Scrum is one of many agile frameworks and is considered the most popular and widely adopted. Although Scrum presents several advantages, process and final product quality continue to be Scrum’s main challenges. The quality assessment should be an essential activity in the software development process. Several authors have attempted to improve the quality of Scrum projects, changing some aspects of the framework, such as including new quality practices, a quality role, and quality processes. However, the quantification of quality is still a challenge. For that reason, the authors proposed a framework called Scrumlity, which was defined in a previous study. This framework proposes a change to Scrum, including a quality role and some artifacts to evaluate quality through a complete execution of a Sprint. In this study, the authors add a User Story Quality assessment to the framework. The User Story Quality Assessment includes over 250 analyzed User Stories. Results obtained after this experiment indicate the importance of executing a User Story Quality Assessment and that Scrum Team members are willing to accept adding this to the framework.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 22424, Tijuana, B.C., México

    Claudia Tona, Samantha Jiménez & Reyes Juárez-Ramírez

  2. Departamento de Sistemas y Computación, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, 22430, Tijuana, B.C., México

    Ángeles Quezada

  3. Full Stack Immersive Program, San Diego Global Knowledge University, 1095 K St Suite B, CA 92101, San Diego, United States

    Rafael González Pacheco López

  4. Coordinación Académica Región Altiplano Oeste, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 78600, Salinas de Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, México

    César Guerra-García

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Tona, C., Jiménez, S., Juárez-Ramírez, R. et al. Scrumlity: An Agile Framework Based on Quality of User Stories. Program Comput Soft 48, 702–715 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768822080199

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