If you’re interested in learning about specification by example through practical examples, come and attend one of the upcoming training workshops scheduled for the next few months. The workshop is aimed at testers, business analysts and developers and based on my books Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap.

• (1 day intro workshop) London, November 29th 2010
• (3 day in-depth workshop) Amsterdam, January 10-12 2011
• (3 day in-depth workshop) Oslo, Norway, January 18-21 2011
• (3 day in-depth workshop) Berlin, March 7-9 2011

If none of the dates/places work for you and you would still like to attend this, drop me an e-mail and we’ll sort something out.

This three day workshop immerses the participants into a project driven by Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will learn how 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 workshop is aimed at testers, business analysts and developers. It combines an introduction to Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing, a set of exercises to help you get started with FitNesse – the most popular tool for agile acceptance testing – and a full day of working on realistic domain examples taken from your recent projects or a future phases of projects. This ensures that you gain real-world experience, enabling you to kick-start internal adoption of these practices in your team.

Click here for more information and to register.

• How to communicate effectively with project stakeholders
• Value of specification by example
• How to write good scenarios
• How to spot problems with scenarios and examples and how to fix them
• How to integrate BDD and specification by example into your development process and organisation
• Focusing on writing software that really matters
• Managing code after it is released, using examples and scenarios as live documentation

This will be a unique opportunity to learn BDD and specification by example straight from the horse’s mouth. We’re ironing out the final details and I’ll publish them early next week. For now, I can only say that the workshop will take place in central London mid December this year and that the number of places will be very limited (definitely not more than 30), so if this sounds interesting send me an e-mail or ping me on twitter and I’ll keep you posted.

Here is the video from my recent presentation “SLIM and the future of FitNesse”. In this talk, I introduce SLIM, the new FitNesse test runner, compare it to FIT and demonstrate its basic features. You can also download the slides

Here’s the video from my Fitnesse.NET Tips and Tricks presentation at Skills Matter in mid February in London. During the talk, I demonstrate several techniques that help us implement FitNesse.NET tests very efficiently with little or no test specific code. You can find the source code and slides here.