Online Appendix of the Paper "From Concept to Action: How Do Agile Software Teams Decompose User Stories into Tasks?"

GENERAL INFORMATION

This online appendix contains supplementary materials for the research paper: "From Concept to Action: How Do Agile Software Teams Decompose User Stories into Tasks?" published at the 38th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE).

We conducted an empirical study of how teams decompose user stories into tasks. The study addresses the following research questions:

RQ1: Which roles are involved in decomposing user stories into tasks? 

RQ2: How are roles involved in decomposing user stories into tasks?

RQ3: What techniques do teams use to decompose user stories into tasks?

FOLDER STRUCTURE

Each folder corresponds to one research question. The files within each folder contain the data used in the analysis presented in the paper.

CAISE Online Appendix```├── RQ1/    # Role count per system├── RQ2/    # Role count for each user story and per system, including UpSet plots representing role involvement├── RQ3/    # User story decomposition technique count and requirements artifact count per system  ```

DATA ACCESS AND SHARING

Recommended citation for this dataset: Ly, D., Aydemir, F. B., & Dalpiaz, F. (2026). Online Appendix of the Paper "From Concept to Action: How Do Agile Software Teams Decompose User Stories into Tasks?" [Data set]. Zenodo.

License information: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International