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<br><div><div>On 6 Aug 2008, at 16:18, Matt Wynne wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It might help to have a look at the thread that starts here:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.benmabey.com/2008/05/19/imperative-vs-declarative-scenarios-in-user-stories/">http://www.benmabey.com/2008/05/19/imperative-vs-declarative-scenarios-in-user-stories/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Its a subtlety I'm only just getting my head around, but there's a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wealth of useful experience behind these posts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks Matt (and Ben), that's very helpful. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm definitely in the "declarative, token for conversation" camp then. So I would write a scenario for success and one for failure and let my models (and/or controllers) deal with what failure actually means. </div><div><br></div><div>Heh, I like this stuff - it's got me enthused about programming in a way that haven't been since I first came across Rails. </div><div><br></div><div>B. </div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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