Acceptance Test Driven Development

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I’m blogging the conference Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value • What happens if you put acceptance tests in the Whilst working at EasyNet, David modified their normal XP iteration cycle to insert a phase where, for each story, acceptance test criteria were agreed and documented. A key enabler was to separate out test case definition (which depends on the business requirement) from test scripting (which is dependent on, and coupled with, the system under test). This way the test cases can stay unchanged whilst the system changes. If the system changes in a way that breaks the test fixture that shows up as broken acceptance tests. Update: See this post from Keith Braithwaite

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