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Humor in requirements

Monday, March 2, 2009

On a recent nostalgia trip for my first computer and first GUI, I encountered the following example of user-hostile documentation:
Documentation quality varies from good to unclear and insulting: “The Becker BASIC system will help you to learn structured programming: After about the 15th or 20th error message, you’ll learn to be much [...]

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Not being a requirements jerk

Friday, January 23, 2009

There’s a spirited discussion about requirements going on at CAST24×7. Ben Simo visited a store with some requirements posted on the door: “no backpacks, food, strollers, unruly kids or cheap husbands”, etc.
He asks how you would test these requirements? How could you refine them? How do you determine whether bugs need fixing?
The discussion centered largely [...]

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