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FIVE QUICK IDEAS TO IMPROVE YOUR EXECUTABLE SPECIFICATIONS

Successful Agile Testing has demanded that teams adopt new techniques for efficiently and effectively specifying and testing new features. Getting this right in a cross-functional team requires many changes — some major, some subtle — to the way we design and specify automated acceptance tests. It takes a lot of time, trial and error to master these changes for yourself — luckily others have made a bunch of those mistakes for you.

In this talk David Evans and Tom Roden give you 5 critical pieces of advice for succeeding with Executable Specifications — those magical artefacts that combine feature specification, acceptance test and system documentation.

David and Tom have been involved in testing for er, well for a long time now, since before that thing called the internet was about…..yep there was a time before the internet.

Co-authors of the book “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests”, they will share their experiences to help you improve the way you approach writing automated tests.

If you already work with Cucumber, Fitnesse, SpecFlow or similar tools to support Behaviour Driven Development and Specification By Example, you will pick up practical tips and advice to avoid the most common mistakes that teams make when using these tools and techniques.

You will also learn to recognise the characteristics that take good example scenarios beyond the role of acceptance tests and into living documentation for long-term value.

David Evans is an experienced agile consultant, coach and trainer with 30 years of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of agile quality, he has provided training and consultancy for clients worldwide. He is co-author of the best-selling books 50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories and 50 Quick Ideas to improve Your Tests, was a contributor to the book More Agile Testing, and has also had several papers published in international IT journals.

Tom Roden is a software delivery consultant, coach and quality enthusiast, helping teams and people make the changes needed to successfully adapt to the changing demands of their environment. Tom specialises in transformation, coaching, large scale agile implementation and testing, from test management and strategy, to practitioner methods like specification by example, BDD and context driven testing. He is author of the books Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your Tests and Fifty Quick Ideas to improve your Retrospectives.

HOW TO DEVELOP A SERVANT LEADERSHIP STYLE IN A DEMOCRATIC RETAILER

Retailers are operating under challenging and ever changing times. To survive and thrive, the John Lewis Partnership responded to this through agile transformation.

I work for the Partnership which has a unique core principle that’s been around for over a century.

It identifies that the ‘happiness of all its members relies on their ‘worthwhile and satisfying employment’.

I’d like to share how this early thinking strongly correlates to what we’re trying to achieve by encouraging a leadership style that puts others first.

Natasha Ah-Fat is passionate about what she does. She throws herself full-heartedly into the things Iin which she believes. She loves to lead, to learn and experience new things; is excited about the changing pace of technology and working in environments that allow her to see how technology can enhance a customer/user experience.

Natasha works for the major retailer, the John Lewis Partnership, as an agile coach and delivery lead. Going through an exciting transformation programme, the Partnership recognises that to stay ahead of the curve, you have to build an agile organisation that can quickly respond to increasingly challenging customer and market trends. To do this you nurture a culture that uses rapid feedback to deliver value to customers and employees.

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