Automated Acceptance Testing and Story- Driven Development

Course Objectives

Would you like to find out how to reduce bug-counts in production by nearly two orders of magnitude?

This course will explore an approach to development led by testing that includes the creation of “Executable Specifications” for the software that we create, automated tests that specify the behavioural intent of the code that we will write. Ideas based on a holistic Behaviour Driven Design (BDD) approach that can result in significantly higher quality software produced at a faster rate.

What you will get

• Practice and understand the identification, creation and use of “Acceptance Tests” in the form of “Executable Specifications” to define the behaviour of a system.
• Demonstrate the link between an effective, story-based, approach to requirements and practice the skills to map from story to Acceptance Test.
• Practice the skills of effective story-writing using a combination of “Story Mapping” and “Specification by Example” techniques.
• Understand how to create and develop a “Domain Specific Language” to support the creation and maintenance of “Executable Specifications”
• Understand some of the techniques used to isolate the system under test and allow for the creation of effective, efficient test cases in complex systems.
• Build Acceptance Tests, Executable Specifications, that are not compromised by changes in the system under test.