Executable Specifications with GreenPepper

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Duration

1 day

Description

Have you ever felt that you developed the wrong software? Even with this team of experienced developers, these outstanding analysts who are masters in their business field, this rigorous quality assurance process, you deliver a system that barely satisfies user expectations. You see elegant functionalities, but you do not manage to find a single concrete value for your business. Or worse, in spite of the considerable investment necessary for the development of the solution, you wonder whether it is wise to release it.

The executable specification is a concept that proposes to define requirements in a natural language while allowing them to be executed directly in the system being developed so as to instantly validate system compliance. The goal is to reduce the risks of having a system that supports functionalities �but not exactly like the users intended�. GreenPepper is an Agile requirements definition and management tool. In addition to allowing for the conventional definition and management of requirements, GreenPepper allows you to make sure the system is meeting all requirements in an exact and precise manner. One can describe it as an Agile tool that integrates test scenarios.

GreenPepper helps you develop the right software!

Objectives

This course will present the concept of executable specifications and their implementation in GreenPepper. You will use GreenPepper during workshops that will allow you to understand how to integrate it into your development projects. From the writing of specifications to the writing of the application code, you will cover the entire development life cycle to make the most of cooperation between business analysts and programmers. Following this session, here is what you will be able to do:

• Improve cooperation and communication within your teams
• Improve cooperation and communication with your clients
• Have a platform for cooperation focused on business needs
• Pilot software development through executable specifications

Target audience

• Business analysts, architects, programmers and testers who wish to improve their communications
• Development teams that wish to optimize their relationships with their clients
• Product managers and project leaders who wish to have a perennial platform that hosting their projects� business rules
• Computer department heads who wish to increase cooperation between their teams of analysts and programmers

Content

• Motivations:
  • Origins
  • Agile approaches
  • Executable specifications
  • GreenPepper
• Workshops:
  • Test classification
  • My first executable specification
  • Boundary between functional and unit tests
  • Test-driven development
  • Incremental specifications
  • Integration tests
  • Communication
• Key words:
  • Rule for
  • Set up
  • Do with
  • Check
  • Personalized check
  • Fixture
  • Parameterized fixture
  • Java plug-in for Eclipse

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