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The above mentioned principles are a must for any successful software project a project save the most trivial one seriously violating them can succeed by chance only

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If add to them two specificationbyexample specific principles executable specification specification expressed as acceptance tests written not in the technical but in the business language and living documentation documentation consisting of or generated from automated acceptance tests you may imagine which benefit specificationbyexample may bring to your development

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And the main dangers fragmented incoherent and nonuniform solution and an exponential growth of complexity in the behavioral tests are not even mentioned explicitly yes there are talks about an appropriate level of abstraction and key examples but it is not enough

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Moreover one of the success stories contains the following passage from the first day of development the talia team used specification by example and built up a living documentation system

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After a year of development they had to rewrite the core of the virtual agent engine from scratch

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There is no explanation why this rework from scratch becomes necessary but there are good chances that it was for the reasons explained above