Project managers use this Capability Pattern as a way to perform a goal-based planning and management. Work
is assigned to developers and work progress is tracked based on the goals to be achieved, i.e., the designed,
unit-tested and integrated source code.
A context can be specified when a requirement is assigned to be developed, thus specifying how broadly a requirement is
to be developed in a iteration -- development may be focused on a layer (e.g., user-interface,
business logic or database access), on a component and so on.
Whether a context is specified or not, developer's responsibility is to create a design and implementation for that
requirement, then to write and run unit tests against the implementation to make sure the implementation
works as designed, both as a unit and integrated into the code base.
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