Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Functional requirements

As we have already decided on utilizing an Agile model for implementing our project, the next logical step for defining our functional list of requirements is to establish user stories.

The concept of user stories pertains to the need of expressing software requirements from the perspective of an actor that interacts with the system. In many types of projects, actors are typically considered to be the end users of the system. However, in the general case, other systems (for example, a backend service) may also assume the role of an actor.

Each user story begins with a succinct requirement specification. It is important to note that the specification itself must always be expressed from the viewpoint of the actor that ...