Dec 1 SeaSPIN Invite: Acceptance Test Driven Development: PNSQC Keynote

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December 1 Meeting

Construx Software, 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA

Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:45 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:45 to 6:55
Presentation from 6:55 to 7:55
Doors close at 8:30

Beginning with the End in Mind:
Driving Development with Acceptance Tests,
presented by Elisabeth Hendrickson

In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey names
"Begin with the End in Mind" as the second of the seven habits. This
habit applies not just to individuals, but to software development
teams as well. In Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), the
Product Owner begins requirements discussions with expectations and
examples, and the whole team collaborates to distill these into
acceptance tests that define the essence of “Done." Modern testing
frameworks enable the team to express the tests in natural language
while connecting them to the software so that the tests are automated
while the software is being developed. The end result is that the
acceptance tests become executable req

In this demo-based session, Elisabeth uses ATDD to implement a feature
in a sample application, live, with acceptance criteria coming from
the audience. Along the way, she explains the ATDD cycle and how it
fits with other Agile development and testing practices including TDD,
Continuous Integration, and Exploratory Testing.

Biography
Elisabeth Hendrickson is the founder and president of Quality Tree
Software, Inc., a consulting and training company dedicated to helping
software teams deliver working solutions consistently and sustainably.
Elisabeth wrote her first line of code in 1980. Moments later, she
found her first bug. Since then Elisabeth has held positions as a
tester, developer, manager, and quality engineering director in a
variety of companies ranging from small startups to multi-national
enterprises. A member of the Agile community since 2003, Elisabeth has
served on the board of directors of the Agile Alliance and is one of
the co-organizers of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools
program. These days, Elisabeth splits her time between teaching,
speaking, writing, and working on Agile teams with test-infected
programmers who value her obsession with testing. She blogs at
testobsessed.com . You can also find her on Twitter as @testobsessed.

[Chris Bilson]

Will anyone be recording this? I would love to attend but it's my wife's birthday tomorrow.

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[anand.v....@gmail.com]

Hi,

We will be driving to bellevue for this session.

Is there a public parking near this place?

Thanks,

Anand

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