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Beyond Pass-Fail: The Business Value of Acceptance Tests for High-Traffic Websites : Gojko Adzic on The Long-term Value of Acceptance Tests
The Long-term Value of Acceptance Tests
Most of the discussion on automated acceptance tests focuses on immediate benefits in development and defect detection or regression testing. But that's not nearly all you can get from your tests.

While working on his new book, Gojko interviewed more than 50 teams that got big pay-offs from automated acceptance tests, including some that have been using agile acceptance testing for six or seven years. In the long term, most of these teams got quite unexpected benefits, such as being able to support their system easier, significantly change their business models or survive the absence of key business people.
Gojko will talk about these long term benefits of acceptance tests and what you need to do to get them.

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This hands-on BDD workshop will help you get the key skills needed to succeed with behaviour driven development and specification by example. Through simulations and practical exercises, you will apply the ideas and practices of BDD to solve the most common issues development teams have with specifications and tests. You will use Cucumber to define and automate BDD scenarios to provide stakeholders with visibility into software features and help the delivery teams drive development and build quality in from the start. Find out more here

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ABOUT GOJKO ADZIC
Gojko has helped numerous teams implement best specification-by-example practices, written two books on the subject and contributed to several open source projects. He frequently speaks at leading industry conferences.
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This session took part at the Beyond Pass-Fail: The Business Value of Acceptance Tests for High-Traffic Websites . You can view the other 3 podcasts here.
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