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

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 (Cronos - Foresee Technologies) 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 Blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/alternativedotnet/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michelgrootjans Twitter: http://twitter.com/michelgrootjans/
		Pascal Mestdach (Ihc Group Nv) 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. Blog: http://pascalmestdach.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://be.linkedin.com/in/pascalmestdach Twitter: http://twitter.com/pascalmestdach/

Date and venue

Wednesday 3 February 2010

This sessions will be hosted at iLean (Cronos Head Offices): Veldkant 33A - 2550 Kontich

A detailed map is available here

Schedule

• 17:30 Welcome
• 18:00 Introduction & session
• 20:00 Closure

(after discussions may take as long as you decide...)

Session Material

You can find the code of the exercises and the slides on our Google Codebase:

http://agileacceptancetesting.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Price

Free!

Contact us for more information and for registration.