ACCEPTANCE TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

A Chinese proverb says, "There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same." And many of the paths share the same trail for portions of the journey. Although acceptance testing has been around for a long time, it was reinvigorated by extreme programming . Its manifestations include ATDD as described in Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development by Ken Pugh, example-driven development (EDD) by Brian Marick, behavior-driven development (BDD) by Dan North, story test-driven development (SDD) by Joshua Kerievsky of Industrial Logic, domain-driven design (DDD) by Eric Evans, and executable acceptance test-driven development (EATDD). All these share the common goal of producing high-quality software. They aid developers and testers in understanding the customer's needs prior to implementation and customers being able to converse in their own domain language.

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