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Requirements

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T12 Tests and Requirements: Like Ham and Eggs, Sugar and Spice, Lucy and Desi
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Thu, 10/03/2013 - 11:15am

The practice of agile software development requires a clear understanding of business needs. Misunderstanding requirements causes waste, slipped schedules, and mistrust within the organization. Developers implement their perceived interpretation of requirements; testers test against their perceptions. Disagreement can arise about implementation defects, when the cause is really a disagreement about the requirement. Ken Pugh shows how acceptance tests decrease requirements misunderstandings by both developers and testers.

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