Remote Course: Automated Acceptance Testing and Story- Driven Development

Remote Course: Automated Acceptance Testing and Story- Driven Development by Dave Farley

21-23 September 2020, Virtual, 9:00-14:00 CEST
via Zoom

One of the cornerstones of modern, effective software development is effective automated testing. Continuous Delivery in particular is rooted in this practice. This is a hard thing to get right and a big change for many organisations that traditionally have relied on significant levels of manual testing in the release of their software.

We are all stuck at home figuring out useful things that we can do. Now is an ideal time to challenge our thinking about how we can work more effectively. Continuous Delivery and its associated automated testing approach is one of the most impactful changes that we can make to our software development efforts.

Would you like to find out how to reduce bug-counts in production by nearly two orders of magnitude?

This course will explore an approach to development led by testing that includes the creation of “Executable Specifications” for the software that we create, automated tests that specify the behavioural intent of the code that we will write. Ideas based on a holistic Behaviour Driven Design (BDD) approach that can result in significantly higher quality software produced at a faster rate.

Dave Farley, founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd, is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general. Dave is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book ‚Continuous Delivery‘ a regular conference speaker and well known blogger.

Dave has also a YouTube channel with very usefull videos, check it out.

Dave talking about the upcoming remote course

Course Objectives

To practice and understand the identification, creation and use of “Acceptance Tests” in the form of “Executable Specifications” to define the behaviour of a system.

Demonstrate the link between an effective, story-based, approach to requirements and practice the skills to map from story to Acceptance Test.

Practice the skills of effective story-writing using a combination of “Story Mapping” and “Specification by Example” techniques.

Understand how to create and develop a “Domain Specific Language” to support the creation and maintenance of “Executable Specifications”

Understand some of the techniques used to isolate the system under test and allow for the creation of effective, efficient test cases in complex systems.

Build Acceptance Tests, Executable Specifications, that are not compromised by changes in the system under test.

Who should attend this training

The course is aimed, primarily, at developers and testers working close to the code, but is also useful for technical leaders in an organisation to understand the approach in more detail. This course is also very applicable to Product Owners, giving them a framework for analysis, prioritisation and specification that facilitates Continuous Delivery.

Registration

Date

Remote via Zoom

21 – 23 September 2020 á 5 hours/day, Virtual, 9:00-14:00 CEST (including breaks)

Price

EUR 1100 Early Bird

EUR 1200 Regular

Price excl. VAT.

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Remote Course: Automated Acceptance Testing and Story- Driven Development