Specification by Example: from user stories to acceptance tests

This two-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.

The workshop is aimed at testers, business analysts and developers and based on Gojko Adzic’s books Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap.

About the instructor
Gojko Adzic is the author of several books, including Specification by Example and Bridging the Communication Gap. He is also a frequent speaker at leading software development and testing conferences and runs the UK agile testing user group.

Gojko is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.

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 tests
• 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