ATDD by Example A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development

With Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), business customers, testers, and developers can collaborate to produce testable requirements that help them build higher quality software more rapidly. However, ATDD is still widely misunderstood by many practitioners. ATDD by Example is the first practical, entry-level, hands-on guide to implementing and successfully applying it.

ATDD pioneer Markus Gärtner walks readers step by step through deriving the right systems from business users, and then implementing fully automated, functional tests that accurately reflect business requirements, are intelligible to stakeholders, and promote more effective development.

Through two end-to-end case studies, Gärtner demonstrates how ATDD can be applied using diverse frameworks and languages. Each case study is accompanied by an extensive set of artifacts, including test automation classes, step definitions, and full sample implementations. These realistic examples illuminate ATDD’s fundamental principles, show how ATDD fits into the broader development process, highlight tips from Gärtner’s extensive experience, and identify crucial pitfalls to avoid.

Readers will learn to :
- Master the thought processes associated with successful ATDD implementation
- Use ATDD with Cucumber to describe software in ways businesspeople can understand
- Test web pages using ATDD tools
- Bring ATDD to Java with the FitNesse wiki-based acceptance test framework
- Use examples more effectively in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Specify software collaboratively through innovative workshops
- Implement more user-friendly and collaborative test automation
- Test more cleanly, listen to test results, and refactor tests for greater value

If you’re a tester, analyst, developer, or project manager, this book offers a concrete foundation for achieving real benefits with ATDD now–and it will help you reap even more value as you gain experience.

. Foreword by Kent Beck
. Foreword by Dale Emery
. Preface
. Acknowledgments
. About the Author

Part I: Airport Parking Lot
Chapter 1: Parking Cost Calculator Workshop
. Valet Parking 3
. Short-Term Parking
. Economy and Long-Term Parking
. Essential Examples
. Summary
Chapter 2: Valet Parking Automation
. The First Example
. Pairing for the First Test
. Tabulated Tests
. Summary
Chapter 3: Automating the Remaining Parking Lots
. Short-Term Parking Lot
. Economy Parking Lot
. Summary
Chapter 4: Wish and Collaborate
. Specification Workshops
. Wishful Thinking
. Collaboration
. Summary

Part II: Traffic Light Software System
Chapter 5: Getting Started
. Traffic Lights
. FitNesse
. Supporting Code
. Summary
Chapter 6: Light States
. State Specifications
. The First Test
. Diving into the Code
. Refactoring
. Summary
Chapter 7: First Crossing
. Controller Specifications
. Driving the Controller
. Summary
Chapter 8: Discover and Explore
. Discover the Domain
. Drive the Production Code
. Test Your Glue Code
. Value Your Glue Code
. Summary 1

Part III: Principles of Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Chapter 9: Use Examples
. Use a Proper Format
. Refine the Examples
. Cut Examples
. Consider Gaps
. Summary
Chapter 10: Specify Collaboratively
. Meet the Power of Three
. Hold Workshops
. Trawl Requirements
. Summary
Chapter 11: Automate Literally
. Use Friendly Automation
. Collaborate on Automation
. Discover the Domain 166
. Summary
Chapter 12: Test Cleanly
. Develop Test Automation
. Listen to the Tests
. Refactor Tests
. Summary
. Chapter 13: Successful ATDD

Appendix A: Cucumber
. Feature Files
. Step Definitions
. Production Code
. Appendix B: FitNesse
. Wiki Structure
. SLiM Tables
. Support Code
. Appendix C: Robot Framework
. Sections
. Library Code
. References
. Index