ATDD Story workshop

=== Agenda =====
6:00pm - 6:30pm, Pizza & social

6:30pm - 6:40pm, Introduction
6:40pm - 8:40pm, ATDD workshop by Adam Yuret

Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) has gained popularity in agile circles as an excellent way to solve the problem of getting testers involved earlier in the delivery process. While ATDD can have many useful byproducts such as: acceptance level test automation, executable documentation and improved test chartering, the most significant and often overlooked value is the power of shared understanding. Bringing the whole team into a room to gained shared understanding by identifying concrete behavior-driven examples we can not only improve communication but help prevent costly misunderstandings typical in traditional design and test documentation. Customers, product owners, programmers and testers congregating prior to development of a new story or feature to discuss the intent of the story or feature helps reduce costs and increase teamwork.

Join Adam Yuret for an interactive ATDD story workshop. We’ll discuss the principles and benefits of ATDD and actually have a mock-story workshop where we’ll adopt roles and work together with a product owner/customer to gain shared understanding. We’ll show how ATDD fits into the grand scheme of agile software development (i.e. how Leanstartup feeds into ATDD, which feeds into TDD).

8:40pm - 9:00pm, Lucky draw (starbucks gift card) & Mingle

Speaker bio:

Adam Yuret has worked in the software industry as a sapient exploratory tester for 13 years. While having always been a process troublemaker, he discovered the agile/lean principles aligned very much with his own values and became a passionate advocate for collaborative process improvement. Today, he facilitates Seattle Lean Coffee every Wednesday morning and works as an independent consultant helping organizations achieve alignment and a collaborative learning culture.

We are actively seeking new sponsors and speakers for future meetups...