Agile Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse

Benefits

They will have hands on experience in specifying acceptance tests and writing ‘glue’ code (.Net) with the most used Fit fixture types. Not in a simple hello world or calculator example, but in a more real life application.

Target Audience

• Product owners, Agile Coaches,… will see a way how the communication gap between customers and developers can be narrowed down.
• .Net developers will also have a first experience in writing the Fit glue code.
• Java developers, testers will have hands-on experience in writing executable specifications in Fitnesse.

Session Outline

An introduction to the concept of Agile Acceptance testing. In 2 small iterations acceptance tests for a Snack-ordering application will be delivered.

• Each iteration starts with a Specification Workshop where participants (in groups of 3) will think about how to specify acceptance criteria for given user story.
• After the Specification Workshop the participants come forward to pair with the presenters to implement their acceptance criteria. Participants who are not pairing with us, can watch the 2 projection screens. The left screen is for the .Net developer, writing the gluecode. The right screen is for the tester/functional analist, writing the FitNesse tests.

By implementing the acceptance tests, the 4 basic Fitnesse fixtures get illustrated. We also integrate Fitnesse in an automated build and cover a possible way to structure tests in Fitnesse.

More info about Fitnesse here.

About the Trainers

Michel Grootjans

Professional learner

Experience: Technical coach with a specialization in agile methodologies in Microsoft .net technology. Special interests go to the alt.net style of thinking.

Goals: I'm continuously looking for new ways to improve my skills. This is achieved by:

• always looking for better ways to fulfill business requirements
• sharing my knowledge and getting feedback from peers
• being an active member in the .net community

Pascal Mestdach

Solution Architect:

• getting things done & supporting fellow developers
• evangelizing Agile Software Development practices
• communicating the architecture, tools, standards and design principles to be used

During the past 10 years Pascal has become a generalizing specialist in the Microsoft.Net domain. His skill set consists mainly of architecting, developing, managing, testing and deploying enterprise applications.

Goals:

Always further deepening in software analysis, design, testing and its project management in an Agile way.