1 pointby nslog3 hours ago2 comments
  • cratermoon3 hours 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...

  • _wire_an hour ago
    Bob 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!