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Suitability of FIT User Acceptance Tests for Specifying Functional Requirements: Developer Perspective

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Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004 (XP/Agile Universe 2004)

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The paper outlines an experiment conducted in two different academic environments, in which FIT tests were used as a functional requirements specification. Common challenges for functional requirements specifications are identified, and a comparison is made between how well prose and FIT user acceptance tests are suited to overcoming these challenges from the developer’s perspective. Experimental data and participant feedback are examined to evaluate whether developers can use requirements in the form of FIT tests to create a design and implementation.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Grigori Melnik, Kris Read & Frank Maurer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Carmen Zannier

  2. Software Engineering Group, Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal Road, Building M50, K1A 0R6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Hakan Erdogmus

  3. Object Mentor, Inc., 501 North Riverside Drive, Suite 206, 60031, Gurnee, IL, USA

    Lowell Lindstrom

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Melnik, G., Read, K., Maurer, F. (2004). Suitability of FIT User Acceptance Tests for Specifying Functional Requirements: Developer Perspective. In: Zannier, C., Erdogmus, H., Lindstrom, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2004. XP/Agile Universe 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27777-4_7

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