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Why Learning How to Decompose Stories with Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) Is not Just Decomposition

Net Objectives

I’ve been having a very interesting twittervation about how to start teams off with Scrum. And that it’s more important to get teams actually starting Agile in the workshop than merely learning Scrum which will hopefully lead you to Agile. I believe you best learn by doing.

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The #1 challenge for teams after scrum training is writing small, well-scoped, testable stories.

Net Objectives

Most Scrum courses teach story writing w/ "As a I want so that I get ". When people learn the core of acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) using behavior driven development's (BDD) Given-When-Then construct, they leave the workshop having written small stories from their own backlog.

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). At a minimum, your stakeholders are likely to include: technical leads, QA leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, QA engineers.

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Why It's So Important to Learn ATDD upfront.

Net Objectives

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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Why It's So Important to Learn ATDD upfront.

Net Objectives

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

That takes time, sure, but it also eliminates time needed for testing and fixing after the fact. It turns out to be a net gain, resulting in higher quality results for less cost and time. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse. Energized Work.

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Scrum by Example – How to Handle Production Support Issues in Scrum

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Today, our ScrumMaster and their Team grapple with these issues, to help you understand how they affect a Scrum Team and what you can do to prevent them from dragging you down. All new code has acceptance tests written for it at the time it is created. ScrumMaster Steve and his Team have released the World’s Smallest Online Bookstore.

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