Spring System Design in Practice

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Sorting Complex Requirements into Features, Use Cases, and Stories

In this chapter, we will continue our conversation about how to structure strong requirements. In the previous chapter, we created high-level requirements. Although useful for setting the direction of the products we are going to create, they are vague. In other words, they do not tell the whole story. They lack details that would allow us to start writing our software. If you have too many details at that phase, you have done it wrong.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

• Naming the distinct features of your product
• Identifying actors, events, life cycles, stages, types, levels, and loops
• Creating user journeys, use cases, and stories
• Structuring the final ...