Product Owners Guide To Acceptance Test Driven Development
Submitters: Antony Marcano & Andy Palmer
Level: Introductory
Session Type: Demonstration
Duration: 45 mins
Target Audience: Product Owners; anyone who works with product owners
Prerequisites: None
How do you know, with confidence, that the next iteration of your product will do what you’ve asked for it to do? Acceptance Test Driven Development could be the answer.
If your teams already use ATDD, are you really getting all that you should be from the process?
This session will show you how ATDD is an approach to collaboratively specifying a user-story. It helps you to clarify what you want & feel confident that the development team understands what you are asking for. It captures requirements in your terms, enabling the ongoing automated validation of the product.
Process/Mechanics
- Introduction to the topic, and presenters
- What is ATDD and why would you do it
- Demonstration of how acceptance tests can be easy to write, understand and have automated feedback
- In-depth 15 minute Q&A
Learning outcomes
- Why ATDD helps you to have confidence that development teams are delivering the right product
- How treating ATDD as ‘testing’ rather than as story specification short-changes product owners
- How ATDD can make a big difference to product owners and their ability to communicate and collaborate with the development team
- How easy to read, edit and agree the acceptance tests ought to be for non-technical product owners
- How the acceptance tests you agreed can be exactly the same acceptance test that is automatically executed
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