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Business Story Manager Features

Business requirements and acceptance by example

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BSM
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Dashboard - the system home page
Rapid access to all records using short codes
Manage your system preferences
Top 5 TO DOs, Top 5 Cases etc.
Fully editable scratchpad feature to log all your ad-hoc notes and references
Experimental chat facility for real-time team conversation
Stakeholders - manage business initiatives, stakeholders, goals and risks
Business Initiatives, objectives and stakeholders who own, are involved, benefit or are affected
Stakeholder involvement, goal responsibilities/RASCI charts and stakeholder analysis
Manage business goal measurement scheme, progress, and the goal-requirement relationship
Define, analyse and manage risks, specify how they are measured and reported
Define goal-goal and goal-risk relationships and create a goal network diagram
Requirements - capturing the needs of your business users
Manage user personas and assign to requirements and stories
Create and edit prioritised requirements
Traceable business requirements, stories through to business scenarios
Full change history and differences report for every requirement
Manage your requirements into a hierarchy
Use the requirements-story-scenario tree view to access records quickly
Full requirements report in a printable format
Full integration with the dictionary of business terminology
Stories - illustrate your requirements with stories and scenarios in natural language
All stories describing a feature is associated with a requirement
Use the story wizard to create business stories with the popular as a ... I want ... so that ... format
All business stories can reference a business persona
Business scenarios illustrate features with the given ... when .... then ... format
Enhance your scenarios with data items and a grid of example data
Report requirements, stories and scenarios with full data-item substitution
Filter stories for my current application
List stories for a requirement
Export story and scenarios files (BDD export)
Experimental: export unit tests (in xUnit format)
Full integration with the dictionary of business terminology and data-items
Dictionary - mind your ubiquitous language
Manage your organisation glossary, and maintain glossary term status
Report organisation glossary in a printable format
Report business terminoloy requiring definition
Search the dictionary index for usage of any glossary term
Report/manage data item definitions captured in scenarios
Manage data sources and business entity codebooks
Maintain a library of uploaded reference documentation
Report all references to library documentation
Processes - capture and manage your business processes
Manage processes and the elementary activities and decisions
Manage step-by-step paths through business processes referencing features and scenarios at every step
Generate process flow diagrams in a range of formats
Report business process coverage by process paths
Clone and edit process paths or create test procedures directly from paths
Manage project iterations - Scrum users can manage their sprint iterations 'out of the box'
Create and manage your project releases; structure them into Sprint/iterations
Manage multiple parallel Sprints for any project
Manage your product story backlog
Plan Sprint/iterations and include stories and cases in scope
Manage progress using project and personal Kanban taskboards
Define Sprint/iteration timecodes to allocate time
Generate Sprint/iteration analyses, velocity and burndown graphs
Create and manage tasks at story and case level
Full task history, analysis and diary reporting at project, sprint and individual level
Export task history export (csv file) for off-line analysis
Test Scenarios - transform your business scenarios into meaningful test cases
Lock stories and generate first-cut test scenarios for testers to add detail
Enhance test scenarios to include step-by-step instructions at any level of detail
All test scenarios mirror business scenarios for all time so their derivation can always be traced
Generate test code to speed up Robot-Framework scripting
Print test Scenarios as test cases
Robot Framework - generate test from stories and report test status
Export Robot Framework formatted test cases
Extract Robot Framework test case keywords from HTML
Import Robot Framework test results, matched to test scenarios
Report test execution status for stories and test scenarios
Test Procedures - script your tests at any level of detail
Clone test procedure from business process paths to create your initial test plan
Manage detailed test procedures from process paths and export as manual test script
Clone test procedure to create full copies that can be edited to increase coverage to suit your purposes
Manage test procedure step detail
Produce print-ready test procedures for use by manual testers
Case Management - a generic logging and action-tracking facility
Create a range of case types including incidents, defects, requests, To Dos etc.
Show cases on my To-Do list
Show open cases raised by me
List all open cases for my organisation
Find and filter all cases for my Organisation
All case updates are notified to assigned user by email
System Administration - manage organisation-wide settings, preferences and security
Manage organisation preferences (activate access control, define working week, story and case estimation units etc.)
Manage applications, projects, user roles, user personas and case-status codes
Manage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) role-permissions for all functionality
Manage user RBAC roles to control all user access to restricted functionality
Perform 'all-requirements dictionary indexing'
Perform 'all-stories dictionary indexing'
Help - assistance on every screen and BSM terminology
Report Business Story Manager terminology
Search the help system
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