Expressing business rules

Abstract

Learn how to express business rules as storytests [1], with a focus on expressing the business domain with clarity and brevity. Writing storytests (Customer tests) is usually complicated by several factors: The business domain needs to be understood, and often needs to be clarified. Storytests need to evolve to help this understanding evolve. Emphasis is often placed too early on the testing aspects, rather than on expressing the business domain as clearly as possible. The storytests often make premature commitments to details of the application being developed, or are not written until those details are known. This tutorial will give participants experience in expressing business rules well as storytests. We'll see that such storytests evolve as the whole team's understanding of the business needs and the system evolve. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.