Specification by Example-agile testing, agile requirements

Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will learn: the key principles of specification by example, behaviour driven development, effect mapping; how to create and maintain effective specifications and tests in agile and lean projects; how to ensure a shared understanding of testers, developers, business analysts and stakeholders on future functionality; how to extend specifications with examples to create a single source of truth for testing and development; how to avoid functional gaps and inconsistencies in specifications and tests; how to run specification workshops to facilitate collaboration; best practices for designing specifications and automating them as tests; how to create a living documentation system to facilitate change and improve your process long–term; how other teams, from small web startups to large distributed teams in investment banks, apply specification by example in their contexts; how to apply this process in your project.

testers, business analysts, developers, product owners working Scrum or Kanban projects and based on Gojko Adzic’s books Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap.

Agenda: Specification by example; Behaviour driven development (BDD); Agile testing; Agile requirements; Impact mapping; Collaboration.

Every participant will be given Gojko Adzic’s 2 popular books: Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories; Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your Tests.