Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

About the Technology
Specification by Example is a collaborative method for specifying requirements and tests. Seven patterns, fully explored in this book, are key to making the method effective. The method has four main benefits: it produces living, reliable documentation; it defines expectations clearly and makes validation efficient; it reduces rework; and, above all, it assures delivery teams and business stakeholders that the software that's built is right for its purpose.

About the Book
This book distills from the experience of leading teams worldwide effective ways to specify, test, and deliver software in short, iterative delivery cycles. Case studies in this book range from small web startups to large financial institutions, working in many processes including XP, Scrum, and Kanban.

This book is written for developers, testers, analysts, and business people working together to build great software.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

• Common process patterns
• How to avoid bad practices
• Fitting SBE in your process
• 50+ case studies

1. Key benefits
2. Key process patterns
3. Living documentation
4. Initiating the changes
5. Deriving scope from goals
6. Specifying collaboratively
7. Illustrating using examples
8. Refining the specification
9. Automating validation without changing specifications
10. Validating frequently
11. Evolving a documentation system
12. uSwitch
13. RainStor
14. Iowa Student Loan
15. Sabre Airline Solutions
16. ePlan Services
17. Songkick
18. Concluding thoughts