Automated Testing

Dec

2019

BDD and Acceptance Criteria

Automated Testing, BDD

With Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a typical list-based Acceptance Criteria is dumped and replaced by Tests... using Gherkin 'Language'... which has the 'Given... When... Then' format. The Gherkin based Acceptance Criteria can then be input to the Automated Test tool called Cucumber. Automation is a key success factor in Lean Agile... therefore, aim to automate as many aspects of your delivery workflow. The aim of BDD is same as TDD and ATDD: write the test first ... develop... and automate testing where possible.

Apr

2019

By Clarence Galapon

The Best Scrum Masters…

Automated Testing, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development, Scrum Master, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Practices, Test-Driven Development

"The best Scrum Masters are also good software engineers. The Scrum Master helps the team improve its engineering practices, just as a coach teaches a team to play better." -- Ken Schwaber (co-creator of Scrum) As Scrum Master, you must make judgements on a team's engineering practices (or lack thereof). BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) , TDD (Test-Driven Development) and Test Automation are examples of best engineering practices that SAFe 4.6 is evangelizing... that best Scrum Masters are aware of and helping the team improve by adopting these software engineering practices.