Acceptance Test Driven Development
Last night, I went to join the meeting of Agile Hong Kong, the topic is Acceptance Test-Driven Development(ATDD), presented by Steven Mark, which look-like great, user friendly, and example-driven concept to improve the software quality and meet the customer expectation, the different between TDD and ATDD is that the TDD is more focus on unit testing, test case written by developer and ATDD is focus on the customer example, test case written by user in readable format, one of practice is customer/business analyst provide html “table” of example using wiki and let the FIT or Robot framework read the html “table” and provide test result.
ATDD is great, but currently I still need a time to pickup the current unit testing with NUnit, lack of experience and no partnership in agile development is my weakness, and I need more time to train up my experience. I hope that I have opportunity to apply agile in future although current environment seen doesn’t permit.
Another good thing in this meeting is meeting with Rex, who is the Ruby developer and IT company owner, we have similar idea of Hong Kong IT Event Calendar before and he did better than me. Also, in this meeting, free pizza was good, and small gift (should be the score card) was offered.
Tags: agile, test-driven
