BDD in Action, Second Edition

16 Living documentation and release evidence

This chapter covers

• What we mean by “living documentation”
• Keeping track of project progress using feature readiness and feature coverage
• Organizing your living documentation
• Technical living documentation

In this chapter, we focus on an important part of BDD that you need to understand if you’re to get the most out of whatever BDD strategy you adopt. You’ve seen how BDD encourages teams to express requirements in terms of executable specifications that can be run in the form of automated tests. These executable specifications become the definitive reference (often referred to as the “source of truth”) for the current set of application requirements. The definitive form of these executable specifications ...