How to turn a Slack dump into acceptance criteria
A Slack thread is a pile of reactions. Acceptance criteria are the few checks that would let someone else say the story is done.
Start by naming the user and the outcome they can see. Ignore the jokes, the tool names, and the “we should also.” If you cannot say who acts and what changes on screen, you do not have a story yet.
Write the happy path as Given / When / Then, or as a numbered checklist. Then add the edge that the thread actually feared: IdP down, empty state, cancel, wrong tenant, permission denied.
Name the user-visible result for errors. “Show an error” is not testable. “Password login still works and the message names the IdP outage” is.
Paste the thread into Working Draft’s acceptance-criteria tool if you want a first pass. Read it. Cut anything the chat never agreed to. Then paste the criteria into Jira — not the Slack dump.
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