On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Ashley Moran
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:19 am, Ben Mabey wrote:
>
>> A more qualified person may want to answer your question, but my short
>> explanation of the change of the default narrative layout is to state the
>> business value at the start instead of the end.
>
>
> I do this, and updated my TextMate Cucumber fea<tab> to this:
>
> Feature: ${1:title}
> So that ${2:value}
> As a ${3:role}
> I want ${4:feature}
>
> $0
>
> for this very reason.
>
> Putting the business value first, and not writing anything else until you've
> found it, means you don't get to cheat and dump "it would be nice" features
> into the flow, then gloss over the fact they're completely useless. Found I
> wrote one of these myself last week, when I wrote the "I want" bit on a card
> 5 mins before we went home. Took half an hour this week to realise it does
> nothing useful (or at least, needs doing in a completely different way).
> But the fact I'd written it down somehow ennobled it.
Recommended reading:
http://lizkeogh.com/2008/09/10/feature-injection-and-handling-technical-stories/
Cheers,
David
>
> Ashley
>
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