About this post: This guest blog was written by Brigitte Meijer, Information Analyst & Requirements Engineer at BmIT. She is a valued collaborator of ours who we regularly hire for consultancy. We have asked her to share her views on our recently released plugin, the XSD Viewer for Confluence. This is what she wrote:
We are currently developing webservices and an ebMS interface for a customer. This involves making a lot of XSD’s…
Previously we wrote the functional and technical documentation for these interfaces in MS Word, made tables explaining the elements by hand and used a development tool to create schematic images. This was a lot of work and it was very difficult to keep the XSD and the documentation in sync.
User stories are just another way to gather requirements. It is certainly a recommended technique if you are working in an agile environment. User stories are becoming more and more popular.
When designing and building a house it’s obvious you’ll ask the customer to specify what he (or she!) wants.