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Huh. While trying to figure out the reasoning behind the name used, TIL that "epic" has acquired a new meaning of "(computing) In software development, a large
by Karellen 5y ago
Huh. While trying to figure out the reasoning behind the name used, TIL that "epic" has acquired a new meaning of "(computing) In software development, a large or extended user story."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epic
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- tsimionescu 5y agoThe name is an extension of '[user] story' - in literature, an epic is a collection of related stories (as in, The Epic of Gilgamesh), so they decided to call a collection of User Stories an Epic.
- Karellen 5y agoYes, that's what the definition I quoted said. ?
- tsimionescu 5y agoI was trying to add to your definition, to explain where the name comes from, for anyone who hasn't seen this before.