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Exercise in converting requirements to Cucumber Gherkin

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Introducing Joseph Ours

About Joseph

• Owns development and delivery of Cohesion's Quality Assurance and Testing Services

• More than 15 years of IT experience spanning several industries and roles

• Notable success managing multi-million dollar initiatives while introducing innovative solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, resulting in improved quality, increased client satisfaction, cost avoidance, on-time delivery, and establishing a true team culture

Contacting Me

@justjoehere

[email protected]

614.423.5253

www.linkedin.com/in/josephours

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephours


Will’s and Won’ts

Will

Won’t

Briefly discuss Cucumber history and syntax to frame context

Take real world requirements and AS A GROUP write them in Gherkin syntax

Learn as a group

Write step definitions or actually wire up for automation

Watch Joe do it all

Learn agile processes, roles, or responsibilities


A way to write requirements in

That is business readable in

Domain specific language

That describes behavior

And works awesomely well with automation

What is it?

Cucumber What is it


Cucumber is actually a rewrite of Rspec Story Runner

Which was a rewrite of Rbehave

Which was a port of Jbehave

Over 7 years old

Cucumber - History


• Features are:

• A narrative

• It is NOT executable

• Describes BUSINESS VALUE

• Something the user will enjoy when we are done developing

• Feature: <Title>

• As a <type of user/role>

• I want <perform some action>

• In order to <achieve a goal – related to business value>

• This should always answer WHY. If it doesn’t, it’s probably not needed.

• Best WHY’s related to increasing revenue, protecting revenue, and managing

costs

Cucumber Feature Syntax


Cucumber FeatureScenarios

Scenario’s are your detailed

objectives – how you will know you’ve

delivered the feature

Format of:

Scenario – Title

Given – Pre-requisites

When – Action Step

Then – Results


GOT IT?

Ready to move on?


• Accountants for Ohio and Alaska must earn continuing education units to

maintain certification (CEU’s)

• This system will allow accountants to track their CEU’s and track their

progress

• The system will allow different state rules to be tracked

Let’s start with a BRD


What Features Can YOU Create?


Users

• Accountants for Ohio and Alaska must earn continuing education units to

maintain certification (CEU’s)

• This system will allow accountants to track their CEU’s and track their

progress

• The system will allow different state rules to be tracked

Let’s start with a BRD

Actions

WHY?

To maintain certification, usually

boils down to keeping your job!


• Business Value is articulated, understood, meaningful

• Aligned with users/role

• Based on actions and goals – results oriented

In Features – Example


• Accountants with jurisdiction in Alaska are required to complete continuing education units (CEU’s)

• CEU’s are accumulated over 2 years (called the period), and always end on odd years

• A total of 80 credits must be earned per period.

• However, at least 20 credits must be earned each year

• Of the total credits in the period:

• 4 must be related to ethics

• No more than 30 can be earned via teaching

• No more than 16 can be earned from alternate sponsors

• New licensee’s do not have any CEU requirements for the period in which they are licensed

• Licensee’s licensed in the last 3 months of the current period do not have any CEU requirements for the subsequent period

• System will total CEU’s based on “approvability” and display to the user

Let’s move on to SRS - Alaska


• No right answer, only what works for you!

• One approach: Identify categories of requirements and work from the top

down

• By Role

• By Rule

• By Exception

How to break down the scenarios?

User/Role

Existing

Even Year

Number of Credits reported

Type of CEU

Odd Year

Number of Credits reported

Type of CEU

New

More than 3 months left

Less than 3 months left


Let’s Identify Some Scenarios


• Feature • Something the user will enjoy

• Scenario • Objective that details out (how you know your done) the feature

• This is no EASY answer as to how high level a feature should be • Single benefit

• Single activity

Work breakdown is the HARDEST part

A word about Features and Scenarios


• Scenarios need detailed

• Variations of scenarios need documented

Example Scenarios


ABOUT COHESION


Assessments

Deployment Training

Strategy

Cohesion Services Regardless of industry or company size, business leadership struggles to

answer the question, "Am I getting true ROI and value from Testing?"

Improving Your Investment

Cohesion specializes in full

management consulting services

ranging from Strategic consulting

through resource deployment across

a broad range of specialties

including Enterprise Agile, Project

Management, Analysis, Application

Development, and Quality

Assurance

Our specialization in driving ROI and

value in the Testing space enables

us to affect ROI over the entire

lifecycle.

Enterprise Agile

Quality Assurance

Management and Analysis

Web and Application

Development


We provide unparalleled project delivery and implement solutions supporting both traditional and Agile approaches. We have

extensive experience delivering high-profile projects for Fortune 500 clients. We proudly bring more than a decade of

experience and exceptional client satisfaction to the equation. Our genuine commitment to client success and our flexible

approach help us stand apart.

Strategic Role Based Consulting

Custom Solution Implementation

Project and Program Delivery

Value-Add Capability

Value

Cost

Typical Staffing Firms

Tier 1 Firms Specialty

Firms

Cohesion is a leading technology consulting firm that partners with clients to

optimize their technology investments.


Differentiators

Relevant Skills

Success requires deep

knowledge on how business

can best leverage IT to

manage a wide variety of

business challenges.

Accelerators

Our accelerators are designed

to make your transition to agile

effective and efficient. We

bring real world experience,

leadership, and practicality to

Enterprise Agile.

Talented and High Impact

Resources

Our consultants come well

prepared to provide significant

value on all client engagements.

As part of our business model,

Cohesion attracts consultants

who have a passion for delivery

and thought leadership.

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• Columbus

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