XPDay 2007: The Secret Backlog: Behind Every Bug-Report is a User Story - Antony Marcano

• Why not just capture acceptance tests directly from bug reports?
• Take bugs and unexpected behaviours as prompts to talk to the customer.
• Worked on a project for 9 months without a bug tracking system — just used acceptance tests.
• Bugs focussed on ugly thing that system does; acceptance tests much more positive — aimed at user goals.
• New features are easier to prioritise and nicer to work on than fixing bugs.
• Quite often end up with new features in bug tracking system anyway…