Writing Effective Business Rules

Introduction

I was awoken by a pounding on the door of my room—long before was I sufficiently awake to answer the door, those outside had made clear they were policemen. But I wasn’t in Australia, where I grew up, or Britain, where I was born. I was an overseas student in Eastern Europe, where nocturnal visits from the police were something to be feared.

By the time I let them into my room, I was completely awake, so, when they demanded to see my passport, I knew precisely where to find it. As it had been stamped at the border when I entered the country and I had met with the appropriate government authorities before commencing my course of study, I was confident that they would find nothing untoward. It transpired however that, as my course ...