Story Server

The story server is a system to keeping track of stories during, for example, an iterative development process like XP. Stories are like use cases, the story server collects the stories and makes it easy to assign them to developers. It keeps track (in a very coarse way) who is working on what, and computes developer velocity (called "omega" in the story server). Story server is free software, made available under the Gnu Public License.

The story server includes:

• A wiki style text entry area.
• Somewhat flexible searching by user and iteration.
• Rudimentary tracking of developer time estimates.
• Computation of developer velocity.
• A simple user interface

What do I need to run it?

• Java v1.3 or v1.4 (Get it)
• A servlet container like Tomcat 4.1.12 (Get it)
• PostgreSQL 7.2 or so (Get it)

Screenshots

Creating a story.	View, in short mode.
View, in long mode.	View a single story.

Download

The current release is 1.6. The source code is available via CVS or in a tarball. The "binary" release has been compiled on sun's jdk version 1.4.0 and has been tested on tomcat version 4.1.2 with postgresql version 7.2.1.

Download

Read the INSTALL file.

CVS

CVS access is also available.

• Use your own cvs (how).
• Use the web (how).

Contributing

Feel free to improve upon the story server. Developer discussion occurs on storyserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Send ideas, comments, and other feedback to the list or to me at mathiask@computer.org.