Writing Great Specifications : Using Specification by Example and Gherkin

Specification by Example and Gherkin offer programmers, designers, and managers an inclusive environment for clear communication, discovering requirements, and building a documentation system.

Writing Great Specifications is an example-rich tutorial that teaches readers how to write good Gherkin specification documents that take advantage of Specification by Example’s benefits. Engineers and testers will find it helpful in striking a stronger chord with nontechnical audiences through automated specifications.

Key Features:

·    Teaches good practices to refactor Gherkin documents in legacy projects

·    Example-rich tutorial

·    In-depth introduction

This book is a teaching resource for product and design people, programmers and testers.

About the Technology:  

Specification by Example is a collaborative approach to defining and illustrating software requirements using concrete examples. Gherkin is a business-readable DSL that you use to describe software’s behaviour as executable test cases that are easy for non-technical folks to understand.