Allow per-scenario meta-information
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Key: JBEHAVE-220
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JBEHAVE-220
Project: JBehave
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Reporter: Chris Jensen
Priority: Minor
>From a development management perspective, BDD could be extremely useful in
>helping to track and understand who is creating specifications and when they
>are being injected.
Since requirements like this will vary between users, it would be a good idea
to implement as generically as possible and then provide an example or
reference.
My thoughts on what would be useful in my own situation:
- A way to indicate the Author(s) of a scenario
- A way to indicate the Owner of a story
- A way to indicate the Creation Date of a scenario
- A way to indicate the Last Update Date of a scenario
- The injection phase of the scenario (eg. grooming, planning, development...)
I don't think these should be included in the grammar as individual, specific
elements, but perhaps the grammar could have a syntax for optional
meta-information. The grammar would allow a word (eg. Meta:) followed by a
category, perhaps emphasized with a symbol (eg. @Author) and then followed by
any arbitrary text.
This would allow interesting things...
Meta: @Author John
Meta: @Role Product Owner
Meta: @Created 2009-11-08
Meta: @Injection Backlog Grooming
-OR-
Meta: @Author Fred
Meta: @Role Quality Engineer
Meta: @Created 2009-12-02
Meta: @Injection Sprint Planning
-OR-
Meta: @Author Colin
Meta: @Role Developer
Meta: @Created 2009-12-10
Meta: @Injection Development
Being able to say that, for instance, only 20% of scenarios are created in
backlog grooming, while another 20% are created in sprint planning and 60% are
created during development would be very useful in identifying and resolving
process impediments and training product owners and teams to define
requirements earlier so they don't run into velocity impacts when they are
discovered late in a sprint.
Allowing meta-data would enable scenario management tool development.
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