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What type(s) of stories does your team use? What benefits or challenges have you experienced?

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Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States
What type(s) of stories does your team use? What benefits or challenges have you experienced?

- 5 W's Story: As [who] [when] [where], I want [what], because [why]
- Basic User Story: As a [role or persona], I want [goal or capability]
- Job Story: When [situation], I want [goal or capability] so I can [outcome or value expected]
- System or Technical Story: [Action verb] [subject] so that [role or persona] gets [outcome or value expected]
- Value/Outcome Oriented User Story: As a [role or persona], I want [goal or capability] so that [outcome or value expected]
- Other (please describe):
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
A combination of these!
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
On my last project, we used Gherkin.(We never got to using it in conjunction with Cucumber.)
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1 reply by Aaron Porter
Jun 30, 2022 10:37 AM
Aaron Porter
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How effective was Gherkin in the way your team used it? My exposure to it (also not involving Cucumber) has been in the form of user acceptance scenarios for system behavior, with the potential for more than one scenario per story or feature, but I can see how it could also work in place of user stories.
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Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States
Jun 30, 2022 9:02 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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On my last project, we used Gherkin.(We never got to using it in conjunction with Cucumber.)
How effective was Gherkin in the way your team used it? My exposure to it (also not involving Cucumber) has been in the form of user acceptance scenarios for system behavior, with the potential for more than one scenario per story or feature, but I can see how it could also work in place of user stories.
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1 reply by Stéphane Parent
Jun 30, 2022 1:52 PM
Stéphane Parent
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The formality of the language helps frame the requirements in a manner that is straightforward and easy to implement. It doesn't do much for identifying all the scenarios: that's still something you have to do on your own.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Jun 30, 2022 10:37 AM
Replying to Aaron Porter
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How effective was Gherkin in the way your team used it? My exposure to it (also not involving Cucumber) has been in the form of user acceptance scenarios for system behavior, with the potential for more than one scenario per story or feature, but I can see how it could also work in place of user stories.
The formality of the language helps frame the requirements in a manner that is straightforward and easy to implement. It doesn't do much for identifying all the scenarios: that's still something you have to do on your own.

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