Summary

In this chapter we saw how a collaborative meeting with business experts, programmers, and testers can settle and agree upon the requirements for the software. Although initially Tony could contribute only a few ideas, he helped to reach a common understanding by making the examples visible. With his unique testing knowledge, Tony could contribute to the discussion and focus the abstract discussion on concrete examples with the tables he created for the parking scenarios.

After Tony brought in the first table with examples, the group had a more meaningful discussion about the requirements. Phyllis the programmer recognized a bug in the examples they had identified for the economy parking lot. She asked for clarification about the case for six hours and one minute. Based on the examples the three had a conversation about the expected behavior from the business perspective.