Learn how to do Specification by Example
I’m speaking here:
- Agile Practitioners 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30-31 January 2012
- Software Passion Summit, Göteborg, Sweden, March 19-20, 2012
- Scandinavian Developers conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 17, 2012
- Dutch Testing Conference, Bussum, NL, 18 April
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May 2012
specification by example Archive
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Stop automating manual test scripts!
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 1 CommentCreating an Executable Specification from existing manual test scripts might seem as a logical thing to do when starting out with Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing. Such scripts already describe what the system does, and the testers are running them anyway, so automation will surely help. Not really... -
Anatomy of a good acceptance test
Posted on June 16, 2010 | 10 CommentsThe long term benefits of agile acceptance testing come from live documentation – a description of the system functionality which is reliable, easily accessible and much easier to read and understand than the code. In order to be effective as live specification, acceptance tests have to be written in a... -
Agile Acceptance Testing – HSBC Talk Slides and Links
Posted on September 21, 2009 | No CommentsThanks very much for inviting me to speak about agile acceptance testing and specification by example at HSBC today. It was great to chat to you and I must say that your video-conferencing system is really impressive. As promised, here are the slides and links from the presentation. Online articles... -
Learn BDD and specification by example straight from the horse’s mouth
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsDan North and I met up today and decided to do a joint workshop on behaviour-driven development and specification by example. The workshop will be very practical, focused around the following topics: How to communicate effectively with project stakeholders Value of specification by example How to write good scenarios How... -
Examples make it easy to spot inconsistencies
Posted on May 12, 2009 | 6 CommentsI organised a workshop on Specification by Example yesterday at the Progressive .NET mini-conference in London, demonstrating how realistic examples are a very effective tool to flush out incorrect assumed rules and point to real business rules in software requirements.

