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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2011: Christian Hassa on Evolving the big picture: Maps of living documentation
Evolving the big picture: Maps of living documentation
Many teams are already using business readable acceptance tests as detail specifications that transform into executable specifications of the systems they build. Starting with only a few scenarios, it is easy to oversee what the developed system is doing in detail. As the system is growing over time and a few hundred scenarios are automated, however, things become more difficult to manage and acceptance test suites often evolve more into a living mess than a living documentation.

This is the point where doubts arise whether the concept is applicable for the given project at all. Business often loses interest in the already existing specifications, and developers wonder why they are caring about writing business readable tests, if they are the only ones who care.

Story maps and effect maps are proven practices to evolve functionality, structure and better visualize the product backlog. Their main concern so far was about deriving scope from goals rather than documentation. To address the need of overviewing large numbers of business readable acceptance tests, their concept can be extended to build maps of living documentation.

This talk covers an end-to-end approach for requirements engineering in agile projects, starting with planning the big-picture, detailing scope using specification-by-example and putting it all together in the end by organizing automated acceptance tests into maps of living documentation. You will see how large numbers of Gherkin scenarios can be organized into a living documentation, that provides both overview and detail information about the actual implementation of a system. While the methods and concepts presented are tool agnostic, concrete examples will be given showing SpecLog for building maps of Gherkin scenarios automated with SpecFlow.

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ABOUT CHRISTIAN HASSA
Christian Hassa got in contact with ATDD/BDD two years ago, when he started to look for improvements of handling regression testing and requirements engineering in the Scrum projects he was working with. He learned about Cucumber for Ruby and started
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PODCAST EVOLVING THE BIG PICTURE: MAPS OF LIVING DOCUMENTATION

This session took part at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2011. You can view the other 6 podcasts here.
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