On Nov 12, 2007 8:47 PM, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 7:12 PM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2007 9:03 PM, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 11/12/07, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 12, 2007 8:09 PM, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The difference is that the story is an authoritative > > > > > spec of how the system should behave, and the description has no > > > > > authority at all. > > > > > > > > I don't have that sense at all. Where do you get that from? > > > > > > >From the belief that the customer is the ultimate authority on what it > > > means for the system to behave acceptably, and the fact that stories > > > are customer-facing and specs are developer-facing. > > > > I totally agree that the customer is the authority - however, the > > customer has just as much right to change her mind about a story as I > > do about a spec! So why should stories be any more locked down than > > specs? > > Stories represent a bridge between the customer's and the developer's > minds, a snapshot of the shared understanding at a given point in > time. They do not obviate the need for customer-developer > communication. A customer should be able to change her stories as > much as she wants, but all but the very simplest changes ought to spur > a discussion and reevaluation of assumptions. > > Pat >
Also, I don't think this approach poses an obstacle to creative tools like a Story Builder. If anything, I'd say it enhances those tools. A customer can play with the tool and build various stories without committing to anything, building stories and then tossing them away on a whim. Then when she finds a few stories she likes - perhaps it's very valuable, or 80% of the steps are already done - she can bring them up with the developer. That would allow the customer to take a more active role in exploring potential stories, and make more efficient use of direct customer-developer collaboration because less time is wasted sifting through half-hearted stories. Pat _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
