Story

A Story is the semantic content of what happens, comprising actors, purposes, situations, events, causality, and outcomes. It is the subject expressed through a Narrative, not a particular manner of telling, document structure, or explanatory order.

Story also refers to the plot of entertainment, product explanations, or metaphors for development plans. SimpleModeling limits this term to the semantic content expressed as a Narrative by a Literate Model. The compound term User Story is handled separately as a requirements technique in its own right.

Japanese articles and videos introduce the term as ストーリー(story) and subsequently use ストーリー. The ordinary Japanese word 物語 may still be used when context requires it, but it is not automatically associated with this term.