7 From examples to executable specifications
This chapter covers
- Turning concrete examples into executable scenarios
- Writing basic scenarios
- Using data tables to drive scenarios
- Writing more advanced scenarios using more Gherkin keywords
- Organizing scenarios
In the last chapter, you saw how conversations with the stakeholders around business rules and concrete examples are a very effective way to build up a common understanding of a problem space. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to express these examples clearly and precisely in a way that will allow you to transform them into executable specifications and living documentation (see figure 7.1).
Figure 7.1 In this chapter we’ll take examples we used to discuss and illustrate features in ...
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