"How to write Acceptance Tests" describes the use of Automated Acceptance Tests, an important tool in evaluating our software. These tests are focussed on answering questions like "Does our software do what our users want and expect?". Software Development teams have been trying to achieve this insight for many years, with often poor results. Grounded in the ideas of TDD and BDD this Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) approach is based in the idea of creating a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for expressing test cases.

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What we really want is a form of automated User Acceptance Testing that can be faster, more effective (catch more bugs), and cheaper to operate. All of those things are wholly achievable, with this approach.

In this episode I recommend a specific approach. These ideas are based on the approach that my team took when we built one of the world's highest performance financial exchanges and pushed the boundaries of what is achievable in automated testing. Since then I have seen this, actually fairly simple approach, work in many of my clients often big organizations with complex software.

This is really a Software Testing Tutorial that takes us through a simple exercise in automated testing. It describes the anatomy of an effective test infrastructure to support a generalized, proven, Behaviour Driven Development approach to automated testing in which we create durable Executable Specifications for the behaviour of our system and use those to eliminate the need for manual regression testing.

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