That's fair, I was focused on defending requirements engineering in general than just user stories. But yes you'd follow something like the V-model and you'd ne

That's fair, I was focused on defending requirements engineering in general than just user stories. But yes you'd follow something like the V-model and you'd need these requirements, that could resemble something like user stories, to fill out a remarkably boring requirements traceability matrix on the other side. If you look at Appendix C of IBMs manual on writing requirements in DOORS [0] you'll see they can easily turn into something similar to "I as a user...". Not that I think that fits everything, nor do I think anyone should need to use DOORS lol. [0] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSYQBZ_9.7.0/com.ibm.doors.requirements.doc/topics/get_it_right_the_first_time.pdf https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSYQBZ_9.7.0/com.ibm.doors.requi...