BDD for Agile Teams Microcredential
Behavior-driven development (BDD) helps teams focus on building the right product by driving collaboration, discovery, and test-first development. The BDD for Agile Teams Microcredential teaches you how to apply BDD practices that align perfectly with agile values, ensuring your team delivers customer value efficiently and effectively. Through hands-on workshops and practical examples, you’ll learn how to facilitate BDD discovery, write and organize scenarios with Gherkin, and integrate BDD into your sprints.
Key Learning Objectives
- Understand BDD Fundamentals: Learn what behavior-driven development is and why it matters.
- Discovery by Examples: Use BDD to align on requirements through collaborative examples.
- Facilitation Skills: Lead effective BDD discovery workshops.
- Executable Specifications: Write and formulate scenarios with Gherkin.
- Scenario Writing: Create clear, valuable, and testable scenarios.
- Scenario Organization: Structure feature files for readability and maintainability.
- Advanced Gherkin Syntax: Apply advanced practices for highly readable scenarios.
- Integration into Scrum: Learn how to embed BDD into sprint workflows and agile practices.
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for professionals who want to integrate BDD into their team practices, including:
- Agile Teams adopting or improving test-first practices
- Software Developers and Engineers
- Scrum Teams and Agile Practitioners
- Product Owners defining requirements and value
- Business Analysts bridging business and technical needs
- Testers ensuring quality through executable specifications
Course Outline
- Introduction to BDD
- BDD Discovery Driven by Examples
- Facilitating BDD Discovery Workshops
- Formulating Executable Specifications with Gherkin
- Writing Good Scenarios
- Organizing Scenarios in Feature Files
- Advanced Gherkin Syntax for Readability
- Integrating BDD into a Sprint
Course Benefits
- Live, Expert-Led Training: 8.5 hours of hands-on learning.
- Practical Experience: Practice facilitating workshops and writing executable scenarios.
- Professional Recognition: Earn a Scrum Alliance microcredential badge that never expires.
- Community-Driven Quality: Developed through the Scrum Alliance Community Badge Program.
- Cross-Role Value: Useful for developers, testers, analysts, product owners, and full agile teams.
- Build Better Products: Ensure alignment, streamline workflows, and increase customer satisfaction.
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