No, not that Chekov
[Ripped straight from the wikipedia article]
Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
It speaks to including unnecessary detail in acceptance criteria. Lets look at a simple example:
Given a list with 5 items
When I add a new Item
Then the list size should increase by 1
When you read this it implies that something special happens when you move between 5 and 6 elements, and if it does, then this criteria is completely valid. If nothing special happens, then it is misleading information. A simpler and clearer criteria would be :
Given a list
When I add a new Item
Then the list size should increase by 1
We don't really care how many items are there at the beginning, only that it increases by 1 when an element is added, the list can start with 0, 1 or more items, it's not important, so it's never mentioned.
