Specifications Are the New API Between Product and Engineering (blog.davidlapsley.io) 1 points by nslog 4mo ago ↗ HN
[–] cratermoon 4mo 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_ 4mo 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!
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 13.8 ms ] threadYes, that's called "programming", as Dijkstra explained https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
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!