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This week I attended a local meet-up of software testers. Michael Thiele from Saxonia Systems AG gave a talk about his view on testing and developing (original German title: “Testend Entwickeln – Entwickelnd Testen”).
The main message of the talk was that test-driven development on unit test level didn’t work for him and his team. Instead, they are now following the acceptance test-driven approach of development. Starting with the requirements in the specification of the software that is to be developed one derives the actual test cases that will later be used as an acceptance criteria. Michael emphasized that this is already done in code, not in some test case management tool nobody is looking at. Of course, the first d
Michael and his team made positive experience with that top-down approach of TDD, especially because developers get used to ask about the acceptance criteria instead of inventing their own. So, it fosters communication between product owner, testers and developers and its a good way to find bugs and gaps in the requirements early.
About me and this blog – BlueTopTesting