Frank Carver's Punch Barrel » acceptance http://blog.punchbarrel.com Frank Carver's musings about software and life Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:58:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Frank Carver's Punch Barrel 2010 frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) frank.carver@googlemail.com (Frank Carver's Punch Barrel) 1440 http://punchbarrel.com/images/punchbarrel-144.jpg Frank Carver's Punch Barrel http://blog.punchbarrel.com 144 144 Frank Carver's musings about software and life Frank Carver's Punch Barrel Frank Carver's Punch Barrel frank.carver@googlemail.com no no Agile: When is a story done? http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/01/17/agile-when-is-a-story-done/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2009/01/17/agile-when-is-a-story-done/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:45:57 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=1027 Anyone who has worked with me in the past will probably recognize my standard response to vague or unclear requirements – “how will I know when I’m done?”. I use it so much becuase the simple trick of changing viewpoint to view work in terms of acceptance criteria is key to enabling sensible discussion, estimation, planning and development to begin.

Mark Needham has been considering similar issues, but rather than using the technique to clarify requirements so a pice of work can enter the development process, he looks at how to decide when to remove it.

Agile: When is a story done? at Mark Needham

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Vinktank | Who owns automated acceptance tests?

]]> http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/10/13/who-owns-automated-acceptance-tests/feed/ 0 Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/09/30/automated-story-based-acceptance-tests-lead-to-unmaintainable-systems/ http://blog.punchbarrel.com/2008/09/30/automated-story-based-acceptance-tests-lead-to-unmaintainable-systems/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:28:18 +0000 Frank http://blog.punchbarrel.com/?p=566 A fascinating counterpoint to Gojko Adzic‘s writings on acceptance testing in an agile process.

thekua.com@work » Automated story-based acceptance tests lead to unmaintainable systems

Update: here’s some more discussion on this topic, and how it is affected by the nature of user stories

User Stories are Just Schedulable Change

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