The ideal scenario test is a credible, complex, compelling or motivating story; the outcome of which is easy to evaluate.
His paper attempted to find a way to reduce the re-work of complicated written tests and incorporate the ease of use cases.
[1] A few months later, Hans Buwalda wrote about a similar approach he had been using that he called "soap opera testing".
Like television soap operas these tests were both exaggerated in activity and condensed in time.
[3] In this method only those sets of realistic, user activities that cover several components in the system are used as scenario tests.