Design Justifications

HitchStory is the result of some carefully considered, although controversial design decisions. These are justified here.

• Why programatically rewrite stories?
• Why does hitchstory not have a command line interface?
• Principles
• Why does hitchstory mandate the use of given but not when and then?
• Why does HitchStory use StrictYAML?
• Why does hitchstory not have an opinion on what counts as interesting to “the business”?
• Why is inheritance a feature of hitchstory stories?
• Declarative User Stories
• Two Unit Tests, Zero Integration Tests

Rebuttals and critiques, especially from users and designers of competing tools are welcome. Either raise a ticket on github or open a pull request with a link.