Building Quality into the Story Delivery Lifecycle

When implementing a User Story, how can you ensure that you have understood the user's intentions?  And how do you know when you're done?  The use of Agile Acceptance Testing techniques help the team develop a shared understanding of the User Story, and results in a set of tests that confirm that the story is "done".This presentation provides an overview of Agile Acceptance Testing and discusses the benefits of using Executable Specifications to implement the tests.  Nigel illustrates the practice using the open source Concordion tool, based on his experience using it on his recent projects.

About the Speaker

Nigel Charman is a Senior Consultant with Assurity Consulting, where he specializes in the implementation of Agile and Development Quality initiatives.  He also spends some of his time getting his hands dirty as a software developer in the health and electricity sectors and as a co-developer on the open source JiBX/WS project.  Nigel has over 20 years of software development experience and is a co-leader of the Wellington Java Users Group.