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The term “Test Driven Development” appears far more widely than the term “Requirements Driven Development”. However, I argue that it is the latter which should often be the driving force. That is, unless the project is extremely agile and requirements only emerge through trial and error. T.D.D. seems to be a great approach to unit testing, but for the higher level test phases I argue that we should be looking to elaborate test cases through the exploration of requirements and it is the linkage between successful tests and requirements which ultimately prove the worth of the development.