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Specifications Are the New API Between Product and Engineering
- cratermoon 7mo ago"The EARS format (Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax) turns natural language requirements into structured, testable statements." Yes, that's called "programming", as Dijkstra explained https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
- _wire_ 7mo agoBob Slydell: So, what you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers? Tom Smykowski: Yes, yes that's right. Bob Porter: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people? Smykowski: Well, I'll tell you why, because, engineers are not good at dealing with customers. Slydell: So you physically take the specs from the customer? Smykowski: Well... No. My secretary does that, or they're faxed. Porter: So then you must physically bring them to the software people? Smykowski: Well. No-- Ah sometimes! Slydell: What would you say you do here...? Smykowski: (shouting) Engineers are not good with people! I'm a people person!
- nslog 7mo agoHave you seen my stapler?