T20117

From User Stories to Acceptance Tests

This three day workshop teaches you how to apply emerging practices for managing requirements, specifications and tests in agile and lean processes to bridge the communication gap between stakeholders and implementation teams, build quality into software from the start, design, develop and deliver systems fit for purpose.

This course is taught in english.

Training Cards, agreementdiscount or other offers is not applicable on this course.

Audience: Testers, business analysts and developers.

Content:

The workshop is based on Gojko Adzic's books Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap. 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 testsø
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

About Gojko Adzic:

Gojko Adzic got bitten by the specification-by-example bug five years ago. Since then, he has helped numerous teams implement these practices, written two books on the subject and contributed to several opensource projects for specification by example. Gojko is a frequent speaker at leading software development and testing conferences and runs the UK agile testing user group.

Over the last eleven years, he has worked as a developer, architect, technical director and consultant on projects delivering equity and energy trading, mobile positioning, e-commerce, online gaming and complex configuration management.
Gojko runs Neuri Ltd, a UK based consultancy that helps ambitious teams, from web startups to large financial institutions, implement specification by example and agile testing practices.