Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

  • 2

    Stories, Examples and Specifications

    • Why Acceptance Test?

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    • What is Acceptance Testing

    • Teamwork & Communications

    • BDD - Defining the Behaviour of the System

    • Exercise 1 - Specifications Without Implementation Detail

    • BDD - It's All About Behaviour

    • Event Storming - Understanding Your Problem

    • Capturing & Translating Requirements

    • Story-Mapping - Organising Requirements

    • Exercise 2 - Story Mapping

    • Specification by Example

    • The Language of Exec Specs

    • Review Your Learning - 1. Executable Specifications
  • 3

    Effective Tests

    • Test First

    • Properties of Good Acceptance Tests

    • Acceptance Tests & BDD

    • Exercise 3 - Finding Stories and Examples

    • Exercise 3 (Answers) - Finding Stories and Examples

    • Exercise 4 - Thinking not Coding

    • Real World Worked Example - Part 1 - Finding Stories

    • Real World Example - Part 2 - Stories to Examples

    • Review Your Learning - 2. Effective Tests
  • 4

    Test Infrastructure

    • Building a DSL for Testing

    • Managing Test Isolation

    • Protocol Drivers & Stubs

    • Testing Time

    • The Four Layer Model

    • Dealing With Intermittent Tests

    • Using the Four Layer Model in Cucumber & SpecFlow

    • Review Your Learning - 3. Test Infrastructure
  • 5

    Test Strategy & Adoption

    • The Scope of Acceptance Tests

    • Effective Test Strategy

    • Review Your Learning - 4. Test Strategy
  • 6

    Course Completion

    • Congratulations!

    • My Feedback

    • References, Links and Recommendations

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Instructor

Founder of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Dave Farley

Dave Farley, is the managing director and founder of Continuous Delivery Ltd. Dave is co-author of the best-selling books - "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering" describing a coherent, foundational and durable approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. He is one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto and a winner of the Duke Award for the open source LMAX Disruptor project. Dave is a pioneer of Continuous Delivery, thought-leader and expert practitioner in CD, DevOps, TDD and software design, and has a long track record in creating high-performance teams, shaping organisations for success, and creating outstanding software. Dave is committed to sharing his experience and techniques with software developers around the world, helping them to improve the design, quality and reliability of their software, by sharing his expertise through his consultancy, YouTube channel, books and training courses.