Archive for category BDD/ATDD
Scenario-Oriented vs. Rules-Oriented Acceptance Criteria
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Software Development, Software Testing, Uncategorized on October 2, 2011
Acceptance Criteria, Scenarios, Acceptance Tests are, in my experience, often a source of confusion. Such confusion results in questions like the one asked of Rachel Davies recently, i.e. “When to write story tests” (sometimes also known as “Acceptance Tests” or in BDD parlance “Scenarios”). In her answer, Rachel highlighted that: “…acceptance criteria and example scenarios [...]
Old Favourite – Sharks, Debts, Critical Mass and other reasons to Sustain Quality
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business, Business Analysis, Old Favourites, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on June 7, 2011
This article originally featured on my old blog on 18th January 2010. A while back I tweeted about critical mass of software: Critical Mass of Code – past which the changeability of the code is infeasible, requiring that it be completely rewritten. An elaboration of this might be: Critical Mass of Software: the state of [...]
Cucumber – with step-free access
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Software Development, Software Testing on May 29, 2011
A while back I wrote about writing feature specs (acceptance tests) at the right level of abstraction. I explained how we want to pitch our scenarios at the “task” level… Goal: What we’re trying to achieve which has one or more… Tasks: The high-level work-item that we complete to fulfil the goal, each having one [...]
Old Favourite: Feature Injection User Stories on a Business Value Theme
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Old Favourites, Software Development on March 24, 2011
This originally appeared on my old blog in May 2010 Feature Injection, an approach to Agile Business Analysis created by Chris Matts, is a much misunderstood thing –. It is a way of combining several techniques to understand just enough of a business problem to start expressing solutions to it. It provides specific techniques to [...]
Putting Cucumber where it’s not supposed to go will hurt!
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Software Development, Software Testing on March 7, 2011
Today, I came across this post by Ryan Bigg where he talks of the pains he’s experienced with Cucumber. Fortunately for Ryan, the outcome was a positive one, he ended up finding what appears to be a nice looking API for automating test-execution. The experience he had with Cucumber, however, is a common one. Often [...]
A bit of UCD for BDD & ATDD: Goals -> Tasks -> Actions
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Software Development, Software Testing on March 6, 2011
There’s something wrong with many behaviour specs (or acceptance tests). It’s been this way for some time. I’ve written about this once or twice before, referencing this post by Kevin Lawrence from 2007. So, first things first, I want to take this opportunity to update the terminology I use… Goals -> Tasks -> Actions A [...]
Old Favourite: Taking Repetition To Task
Posted by AntonyMarcano in BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Old Favourites, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on December 13, 2010
This originally appeared on my old blog on 16th March 2010… Others have talked about the virtues of stories as vertical slices of a problem (end-to-end capabilities) rather than horizontal slices (system layers or components). So, if we slice the problem with user stories, how do we slice the user-stories themselves? If, as I sometimes [...]
You’re almost cuking it…
Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Software Development, Software Testing on August 25, 2010
In “You’re Cuking it Wrong”, Jonas Nicklas, shows several examples of bad scenarios (or acceptance tests whichever term you prefer) and demonstrates better approaches. This is an excellent post on common mistakes made when writing example scenarios with Cucumber. I think, however, he could have gone further in one case. One of his examples of [...]
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Antony Marcano is a consultant in software craftsmanship, effective software processes, software quality and software testing. He has over fifteen years experience with... (read more)
