Managing Features and User Stories

Features and user stories are the requirements layer of the ISO Mate QA module. A feature groups related user stories, and each user story carries acceptance criteria that test cases cover. You manage both from the Quality Assurance group in the sidebar.

How features and user stories fit together

A feature represents a product capability and rolls up coverage from the user stories beneath it. A user story describes a single requirement, holds its acceptance criteria, and links to the test cases that verify it and the issues that deliver it.

Create a feature

1. Open the Quality Assurance group in the sidebar and select Features.
2. Use the Create button. When AI create is enabled for your account, Create with AI can draft the feature from a short prompt.
3. Enter the feature name and an optional description.
4. Set the MoSCoW priority: Must have, Should have, Could have, or Won’t have.
5. Optionally assign a target release.
6. Save the feature.

Create a user story

1. In the Quality Assurance group, select User Stories.
2. Use the Create button, or Create with AI when it is available.
3. Enter the title and a description. The narrative “As a role, I want a capability, so that I get a benefit” works well.
4. Set the status (Draft, Ready, In Progress, Testing, or Done) and the priority (High, Medium, or Low).
5. Optionally assign the story to a feature and a sprint, and set story points.
6. Save the story.

Add acceptance criteria

Acceptance criteria are defined on the user story form. In the Acceptance Criteria section, use Add Criterion, enter each criterion, and add as many as the story needs. Each criterion becomes a coverage target that test cases can link to.

Link test cases and issues

Link test cases to a story or a criterion

Open a user story to connect test cases. The Linked Test Cases section links existing test cases to the story, and the Acceptance Criteria section links test cases to a specific criterion so coverage is tracked at that level.

Link user stories to issues

From the Linked Issues section on the user story detail page, link the DevOps issues that implement the story. This connects requirements to development work for end to end traceability.

Track coverage and work in bulk

Each feature and user story shows a coverage percentage calculated from its linked, executed test cases. Select several rows to delete them together, and export the features or user stories list to CSV or PDF for reporting.

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