Specification by Example

Chapter 18. Concluding thoughts

I began my research for this book because I was seeking external confirmation. I wanted to document that there are many teams that produce great software using agile techniques. I hoped that they were using BDD, agile acceptance testing, or what I would come to call Specification by Example. I thought I already knew how these processes worked and that I would find other people applying them in the same way I was. But the more research I did, the more unexpected lessons I learned. I found that many teams working in different contexts used a variety of practices and techniques to get to the same results. This proved that there’s no such thing as a “best practice.” Software development is incredibly contextual, and ...