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What Is the Big Deal About Testing? ■ 7
At this point, people rarely go back to their initial assumption
(in this case, that the customer needs a bicycle) to find out
whether the additional information (the customer doesn’t want
to get wet and needs to carry a briefcase) means the whole
design should be reconsidered.
The reason seems to be that we make decisions based on our
own perspective of the situation, rather than use a mechanism
that would help obtain a more complete picture. As a result,
we attempt to solve the problem without solving the problem.
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