Teach Your Acceptance Tests to Speak "Business"

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) uses specification by example to define expressive automated tests that facilitate project communication and drive product design. Acceptance testing tools like Cucumber, FitNesse, and Concordion are powerful tools for building a common, ubiquitous language connecting business people, developers, and testers. A common language leads to common understanding and ultimately to better software that meets business needs and delights customers. Unfortunately, too many teams write tests that use excessive technical jargon and miss out on this opportunity. Learn from Richard Lawrence, an expert in acceptance test-driven development, how to use acceptance test scenarios to develop a common language among stakeholders. Discover approaches you can use to refactor your existing test scenarios to speak "business." Although the focus of this session is on Cucumber, participants with other tools will be able to apply the lessons to their test environments.