Writing Great Specifications
Using Specification By Example and Gherkin
by Kamil Nicieja · first published 2018
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…product owners tend to second-guess each other. I've recently introduced Cucumber and it's been an incredibly useful framework for collaborating between developers and product owners. I'd recommend "Writing Great Specifications" by Kamil Nicieja.
on “Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you” ↗…also need good training. If you expect people across the company to use the process, you have to make it accessible and easy for them to learn. A book I would recommend that I am working through now is Writing Great Specifications by Bicieja
on “Ask HN: Design and requirements docs generation” ↗It can be difficult to wrangle Gherkin. I've tried to use "Writing Great Specifications" as a kind of guide. Reducing specs to (mostly) one each of Given, When, and Then seems to reduce UI steps. Having agnostic specs is nice if the team moves from web app to, say, React Native: should…
on “Why Domain Driven Design?” ↗