ATDD Training Overview
Accelebrate's ATDD training course teaches participants how to create acceptance tests that verify their correct implementation and accurately transform customer requirements into product specifications.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Capture the core JUnit syntax
- Use BDD and the test-fail-first approach
- Translate business requirements into user stories with acceptance tests
- Learn how to Refactor to clean up your code
- What makes your code testable
- Use Fakes and Mocks for isolated unit tests
- Use Cucumber-JVM to turn User Stores into Code
- Explore the Selenium API
Prerequisites
All attendees should have prior Java development experience.
Outline
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How Stories Fit Into the Agile Process
- What is Agile?
- The role of the product owner
- Criteria for evaluating stories
- Requirement analysis
- Use case modelling
- Herringbone diagram
- Context diagrams
- The role of the product backlog
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber
- Writing user stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Specification by example
- Creating software based on realistic examples
- Bridging the communication gaps among business stakeholders
Introduction to Cucumber
- Writing scenarios with Gherkin
- Gherkin syntax
- Using given, when, then
- Java, Ruby, or Groovy fixtures generated from scenarios
- Using JUnit to run your Cucumber stories and scenarios
- Writing set-up and tear down code using hooks (@Before and @After)
- Automate Cucumber steps to drive your application both through and below the user interface
- Refactor Cucumber step definitions to make them more readable and maintainable
Selenium
- Web testing
- A history of selenium
- Selenium API – web driver
- Assertions
- Matching
- Waiting
- Storing
- JavaScript
- The Selenium IDE
- Building tests
- Running test suites
- Best practices
Testing Web Sites with Selenium with Cucumber
- Using a WebDriver to test web applications and the Selenium API
- Interrogating a response page
- Simulating links and form submissions
- Simulate multiple page navigation
- Continuous integration
Stories and Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Principles and techniques
- TDD metaphors
- Benefits, challenges and limitations
- Handling requirements change
- Characteristics of good tests
Testable Designs (Mocks, Fakes and Stubs)
- Creating testable code, If you cannot test it what use is it?
- Stubs, Fakes and Mocks
- Mocks as collaborators
- Mocks and return values, void methods, frequency calls and ordering
- Cucumber, Mocks and all that!
Conclusion
Training Materials
All attendees receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course.
Software Requirements
- Windows, macOS, or Linux with at least 8 GB RAM
- A recent JDK version installed
- Related software that Accelebrate will specify in a detailed setup sheet following the purchase of this class
