User Story Tutorial - Using Tag
In Visual Paradigm, analysts can make use of user story to capture the requirements of users. It is a very good way of requirement capturing in the sense that it offers a quick way to record the functionality that are needed by and valued to users without the need to write any detailed requirement documents or to have any prior consideration of system behaviors. However, there might be countless number of user stories in one software development process and you might want to categorize them further for convenience. For example, you might want to indicate which user stories are urgent and require instant resolution or which user stories are already completed where no further amendment is required. In order for you to have a better categorization of user stories in Visual Paradigm, tagging offers a great help. In the following tutorial, we will tell you about why tagging is needed, the steps to create and apply tag to user story and the way to filter user stories with specific tag.
Why is Tagging Needed?
Tagging is a way to group or identify collections of user stories. It provides you with the ability to logically group and filter different user stories. It is extremely helpful when you need to find similar user stories. For example, while you are looking for one user story that is urgent, you might also want to find out the others that are also urgent. With the tag 'urgent' applied, you can easily locate all the urgent user stories and deal with them at once.
How to Create a Tag
- First, create a user story. Open the User Story page in UeXceler. If UeXceler is not already open, select UeXceler > UeXceler from the toolbar and then open the User Story page.
- Double-click on Add a feature that can be finished in 10 days.
- Enter Send private message to instructor as the name of the user story and press Enter to confirm.
- Let's say we want to create an Urgent tag for this user story. Click to select the user story first.
- Click the Add tags button.
- Enter Urgent as the name of the new tag in the text field and then select <Create New>.
- The tag is created and added to the user story.
How to Add a Tag to a User Story
Let's say we want to add the existing tag Urgent to another user story.
- Create another user story named Reply inbox message and select it.
- Click the Add tags button.
- Select the tag(s) from the popup menu. In this case, check the Urgent tag that we created in the previous section.
- Click Apply to add the tag.
How to Filter User Stories by a Specific Tag
- Let's say the user story Read inbox message is a core user story for the system and we want to indicate it with a tag. Add a new tag, Core, to the user story. At this point, you have created three user stories:
- Let's say we want to review all core user stories. We can use the filter function to screen out all the non-related ones, so that only those with the 'Core' tag remain. Click the dropdown button next to Filter at the top left and then select Core from the popup menu.
- As a result, only the user stories with the Core tag are shown.
