The Human Flaw That's Ruining Your Software Specifications
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BDD scenarios are not requirements — they are concrete examples used to surface disagreements and clarify what requirements actually mean. Drawing on Weinberg and Gause's 'Exploring Requirements' and Gary Klein's 'Sources of Power', the key insight is that people struggle to articulate what they want but can easily complain about specific examples. Two practical techniques are introduced: the USE algorithm (Usual examples, Structure, Edge cases) for systematically generating boundary scenarios, and the Feedback Exercise where team members individually write down expected outcomes for edge cases before comparing answers. Together these techniques expose hidden assumptions, misaligned understanding, and missing domain rules far faster than implementing software.