BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop Training Course

============== Day 01 =====================

Introduction

• Why BDD?
• BDD as an extension of Agile
• Agenda for Day 01

Applying BDD at Different Stages in the Software Development Cycle

• Before development
• During development
• After development

One Language to Rule Them All

• Engineers and non-engineers speak different languages
• Bridging the gap through BDD
• A preview of the BDD language: Gherkin

The Different Roles of BDD

• BDD as product requirements (for product owner)
• BDD as acceptance criteria (for developers)
• BDD as test cases (for testers)
• BDD as a description of the product (for other stake holders)

Back to Agile: It All Starts with User Stories

• Overview of the Agile development cycle
• The role of User Stories in Agile development

Q&A Session and Discussion

Quiz

Creating a Good User Story

• Using the right language
  • Role, Action, Outcome
• A sample User Story

Activity - Writing a User Story

• Writing your first User Story - individual activity
• Tightening your User Stories - team activity
• Delivering your User Story - team activity

User Stories in Real Projects

• Team dynamics
• Tools and techniques
• User Stories in the software development cycle

On to BDD

• Extending the User Story
• Introducing the Feature File
• Capturing the expected behavior of software
• Imagining what "unexpected" behavior looks like

Creating a Good Feature File

• Using the right language (Gherkin)
  • Given, When, Then
• A sample Feature File

Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 01

• Writing your first Feature File - individual activity
  • Feature section
  • Scenario section
• Tightening your Feature File - team activity
• Delivering your Feature File - team activity

Feature Files in Real Projects

• Team dynamics
• Tools and techniques
• User Stories in the software development cycle

Q&A Session and Discussion

Quiz

Setting up Your Environment

• Making Gherkin pretty
• The joy of productivity

Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 02

• Writing your Feature File - individual activity
  • Passing multiple arguments to your Scenario
  • Scenario Outline section
• Tightening your Feature File - team activity
• Delivering your Feature File - team activity

Q&A Session and Discussion

Quiz

Closing Remarks

============== Day 02 =====================

Introduction

• Recap of previous day
• Agenda for Day 02

Your Own Product - An Introspection

• Describing your product
• Drawing a picture of your product

Extending Test Coverage

• Usability of the system
• Business requirements
• Business processes

Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 03

• Writing your Feature File - individual activity
  • Examples section
  • Reusing data and scenarios
  • Organizing features and scenarios with tags
• Tightening your Feature File - team activity
• Delivering your Feature File - team activity

Q&A Session and Discussion

Quiz

The Feature File - What to Leave Out

• What to leave to the engineers
  • Low-level functionality (unit tests)
  • Exhaustive cross-component functionality (integration and API testing)

Q&A Session and Discussion

Quiz

Your Own Product - An Introspection

• How usable is your product?
• How usable is your product to outside users?

Communication with People outside Your Team

Closing Remarks