Course Outline
Day 01
Introduction
- Why BDD for government?
- BDD as an extension of Agile methodologies
- Agenda for Day 01
Applying BDD at Different Stages in the Software Development Cycle
- Before development
- During development
- After development
One Language to Rule Them All
- Differing languages used by engineers and non-engineers
- Bridging the gap through BDD for government
- A preview of the BDD language: Gherkin
The Different Roles of BDD
- BDD as product requirements (for product owners)
- BDD as acceptance criteria (for developers)
- BDD as test cases (for testers)
- BDD as a description of the product (for other stakeholders)
Back to Agile: It All Starts with User Stories
- Overview of the Agile development cycle
- The role of User Stories in Agile development for government
Q&A Session and Discussion
Quiz
Creating a Good User Story
- Using the right language
- Role, Action, Outcome
- A sample User Story
Activity - Writing a User Story
- Writing your first User Story - individual activity
- Tightening your User Stories - team activity
- Delivering your User Story - team activity
User Stories in Real Projects
- Team dynamics
- Tools and techniques for government use
- User Stories in the software development cycle
On to BDD
- Extending the User Story for comprehensive coverage
- Introducing the Feature File
- Capturing the expected behavior of software
- Imagining what "unexpected" behavior looks like
Creating a Good Feature File
- Using the right language (Gherkin)
- Given, When, Then
- A sample Feature File
Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 01
- Writing your first Feature File - individual activity
- Feature section
- Scenario section
- Tightening your Feature File - team activity
- Delivering your Feature File - team activity
Feature Files in Real Projects
- Team dynamics
- Tools and techniques for government use
- User Stories in the software development cycle
Q&A Session and Discussion
Quiz
Setting up Your Environment
- Making Gherkin visually appealing
- The joy of increased productivity
Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 02
- Writing your Feature File - individual activity
- Passing multiple arguments to your Scenario
- Scenario Outline section
- Tightening your Feature File - team activity
- Delivering your Feature File - team activity
Q&A Session and Discussion
Quiz
Closing Remarks
Day 02
Introduction
- Recap of previous day
- Agenda for Day 02
Your Own Product - An Introspection
- Describing your product for government use
- Drawing a picture of your product
Extending Test Coverage
- Usability of the system for end-users
- Business requirements
- Business processes
Activity - Writing a Feature File - PART 03
- Writing your Feature File - individual activity
- Examples section
- Reusing data and scenarios
- Organizing features and scenarios with tags
- Tightening your Feature File - team activity
- Delivering your Feature File - team activity
Q&A Session and Discussion
Quiz
The Feature File - What to Leave Out
- What to leave to the engineers
- Low-level functionality (unit tests)
- Exhaustive cross-component functionality (integration and API testing)
Q&A Session and Discussion
Quiz
Your Own Product - An Introspection
- How usable is your product?
- How usable is your product to outside users?
Communication with People Outside Your Team
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of user requirements concepts for government
- A discerning ability to evaluate software quality and deficiencies from an end-user perspective
- No programming or testing experience is necessary
Audience
- Product owners and managers in the public sector
- Business analysts for government agencies
- Manual testers within governmental organizations
- End-users of government software products or systems
- Non-technical personnel involved in product design for government
Testimonials (7)
Use of powerpoint / paint to create the training materials as we went along. Benefit of the trainers experience. Use of the "cinema booking tool" example and our break out group case studies really brought the approach to life
Mark - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
Craig was really helpful and the material was very useful to hopefully take away and use in our actual day to day jobs. We were able to work on real life examples linked to our current work, which Craig supported and gave feedback. This was really helpful
David Pinkstone - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
The training was great, I could see that a lot of prep had gone it to pitch it at the right level of detail and to make the exercises relevant. I am already using BDD at a very simple level, so I was most interested in how the BDD statements are used by testers and automation testers, and therefore how I could improve what I do to make it more usable by other team members.
Sadie Brown - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
Understanding how I can apply user stories and BDD in my team - I've already gotten good feedback from the changes I've made to my work as a result of the training
Lindsey Smith - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
A structured learning to start on BDD.
Gagan Gupta - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
It was interactive and suited better to someone like myself who learns by actually doing tasks and learning from mistakes
Liam Burton - Leeds Building Society
Course - BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop
The trainer was very knowledgeable, went at a pace for the group, and made sure we all contributed.
