Elisabeth Hendrickson

Elisabeth is a consultant specializing in Agile Testing. She started in the software industry in 1984 and has held positions as a Tester, Test Manager, Test Automation Manager, and Quality Engineering Director.  Elisabeth founded Quality Tree Software, Inc. in 1997 to provide training and consulting in software quality and testing. 
She has written numerous articles and is a frequently-invited speaker at major conferences.  In 2003, she became involved with the Agile community. These days Elisabeth splits her time between teaching, speaking, writing, and working on Agile teams with test-infected programmers who value her obsession with testing.

In Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), the whole team collaborates on defining acceptance tests as a part of the requirements process. Those tests become part of the definition of “Done” for a given feature or story. The implementation team then automates those tests by writing code to connect up the natural language tests with the software during development. The result: the acceptance tests become executable requirements. This one-day class covers the whole ATDD cycle, including Discussing the new feature or story, Distilling acceptance criteria into acceptance tests, Developing the feature and automating the acceptance tests, and Demonstrating the resulting feature to the business stakeholder(s) responsible for accepting it. ATDD works best when the team has adopted one of the many available Agile-friendly test automation frameworks such as FIT/Fitnesse, Concordian, Cucumber, etc. This class demonstrates one such tool: Robot Framework.