We firmly believe that quality requirements are essential to a well-developed solution. The requirements inform the tests and the tests shape the code. This axiom means that with poor requirements, the application will result in lower quality architecture and overall design. With haphazard requirements, the resulting tests and application will be chaotic and poorly factored. On the bright side, even poorly thought out or written requirements aren't the death knoll for your code. It is our responsibility, as professional software developers, to correct bad requirements. It is our task to ask questions that will lead to better requirements.