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Specification by Example is an emerging practice for creating software based on realistic examples, bridging the communication gap between business stakeholders and the dev teams building the software. In this book, author Gojko Adzic distills interviews with successful teams worldwide, sharing how they specify, develop, and deliver software, without defects, in short iterative delivery cycles.

About the Technology
Specification by Example is a collaborative method for specifying requirements and tests. Seven patterns, fully explored in this book, are key to making the method effective. The method has four main benefits: it produces living, reliable documentation; it defines expectations clearly and makes validation efficient; it reduces rework; and, above all, it assures delivery teams and business stakeholders that the software that's built is right for its purpose.

About the Book
This book distills from the experience of leading teams worldwide effective ways to specify, test, and deliver software in short, iterative delivery cycles. Case studies in this book range from small web startups to large financial institutions, working in many processes including XP, Scrum, and Kanban.

This book is written for developers, testers, analysts, and business people working together to build great software.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside
  • Common process patterns
  • How to avoid bad practices
  • Fitting SBE in your process
  • 50+ case studies

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Table of Contents
Part 1 Getting started
Part 2 Key process patterns
Part 3 Case studies
  1. Key benefits
  2. Key process patterns
  3. Living documentation
  4. Initiating the changes
  5. Deriving scope from goals
  6. Specifying collaboratively
  7. Illustrating using examples
  8. Refining the specification
  9. Automating validation without changing specifications
  10. Validating frequently
  11. Evolving a documentation system
  12. uSwitch
  13. RainStor
  14. Iowa Student Loan
  15. Sabre Airline Solutions
  16. ePlan Services
  17. Songkick
  18. Concluding thoughts
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A UK based consultant, Gojko Adzic helps teams worldwide implement specification by example and agile testing practices. He has written two previous books on the subject and contributed to several open source projects supporting specification by example. Gojko is a frequent speaker at leading software development and testing conferences and runs the UK Agile Testing User Group.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning Publications
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2011
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1617290084
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1617290084
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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    Gojko Adzic is a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. He one of the 2019 AWS Serverless Heroes, the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award. Gojko’s book Specification by Example won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best online publication in 2010.

    Gojko is a frequent speaker at software development conferences and one of the authors of MindMup and Claudia.js.

    As a consultant, Gojko has helped companies around the world improve their software delivery, from some of the largest financial institutions to small innovative startups. Gojko specialises in are agile and lean quality improvement, in particular impact mapping, agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.

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  • Bas Vodde
    5.0 out of 5 stars Standard Reference on Specification by Example and A-TDD
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2011
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    Specification by Example is Gojko's third book on this subject. The first book, Fitness.net, was very technical and tool oriented. The second book, Bridging the Communication Gap, was a lot more coordination oriented. Now his third book, this one, he describes practices that teams he studied have used. From that perspective, this book is the follow-up of Bridging and might go a little fast if you are totally unfamiliar with the subject.

    The book is divided in three parts. The first part is mainly introduction where Gojko describes the benefits and the key practices that will be described in this book. The second part is the actual description of the key practices and the third part are different case studies about different teams in different companies that have adopted specification by example.

    The key practices that are introduced in part one and described in part 2 are:
    - Deriving scope from goals
    - Specifying collaboratively
    - Illustrating using example
    - Refining the specification
    - Automating without changing the specification
    - Validating frequently
    - Evolving a documentation system

    Deriving scope from goals discusses how customers main concert is not the software but solving a problem and developers shouldn't just expect to get the requirements from the customer but work together with them to help them to solve their problem in the best way. Specifying collaboratively covers how the customer and the teams will cooperatively define the specifications that the team will be implementing later. Illustrating using examples explains how these specifications can be described best by moving from abstract requirements to concrete examples. Refining the specification then takes the essence out of the requirements and describes them in the clearest possible way. After that, the specification can be automated without changing the specification and this chapter gives tips on how to do that. When the specifications are automated, you want to run them frequently which is described in the validate frequently chapter. Evolving a documentation system describes how the specifications become the documentation of what the system does. They stay in-sync with the system because they are continuously executed.

    The third part described a couple of case studies of companies that implemented specification by example. I really loved these case studies and they were written very well.

    I've read both of Gojko's earlier books and had high expectations for this book. I was not disappointed, it is an excellent follow-up and will be my standard book reference on Specification by Example (or A-TDD as it is also called). The book is not perfect though. As times I felt there was too much focus on documentation and too little on collaboration. Still, I'd rate this book five stars and recommend everyone in an Agile development team to read this and practice specification by example.
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  • Bjorn Rasmusson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for the modern practitioner
    Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2011
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    The heart of the practice Specification by Example is the unification of specifications and tests. This unification guides development teams to avoid several of the common anti-patterns in software development; like testing bolted on at the end, and documentation getting out of sync with the implemented functionality.

    The book Specification by Example is the result of drawing experiences from how a number of actual project teams work with the practice Specification by Example. This makes the book particularly valuable, since its advice in not solely based on theories or opinions on how develop software, but it distills experiences of what has actually worked in different situations and in different domains.

    The ideas of the practice Specification by Example have been in use for some time now, under different names like Acceptance Test-Driven Development, Agile Acceptance Testing and Behavior-Driven Development. The author chooses in my mind a sensible terminology for the practice itself and its different parts, or process patterns to use the authors term.

    The book has two main parts, the description of the process patterns of Specification by Example, and a set of case studies of project that uses Specification by Example. In addition the book contains an introduction to the practice of Specification by Example and guidelines on how to introduce the practice in organizations.

    These process patterns of Specification by Examples are described together with tips about "does" and "don'ts". The case studies part of the book contains six case studies covering a diverse set of domains.

    As a software developer that was "test infected" 10 years ago, a think that the practice Specification by Example, essential for successful and efficient software development. I think this book is the best book on the market today, for learning and adopting the practice Specification by Example.
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  • Pirkka Rannikko
    4.0 out of 5 stars Holy grail for requirements, test automation and documentation
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2014
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    This book describes one kind of a “holy grail” for software requirements, test automation and documentation: Stakeholders and developers in collaboration derive requirements from business goals, specify them through examples and automate their validation thus creating a living documentation of the system.

    A must read for everyone building non-trivial systems with long life spans! Some downsides (I’d given 5 stars without these):
    - Although the case studies were very interesting, their reporting in the book was a bit shallow. I would liked to have seen more details and in-depth analysis of each case.
    - As it says in the book, one of the best ways to learn to write good specifications is to study good examples, I expected to see more examples of specifications and wanted to see what the specs the teams in the case studies were creating look like.
    - Although this book isn’t about tools, I would liked to have seen some kind of sketches or diagrams of the development / test / build / documentation environments the teams build in the case studies. I also think that the hierarchy or structure of the specs (e.g. epic-feature-story) would be one important topic to discuss about.
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  • Giorgio Marchetti
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
    Reviewed in Italy on September 24, 2013
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    Gojko Adzic has delivered the Right Book.
    Not plenty of code, nor of hyper-technical jargon, the book is clear and focused.
    Specification by example and its final outcomes (right software and living documentation) are worth a lot! The right approach to software design.
    I also suggest Adzic's Impact Mapping, which covers the "whys" of building software (or anything you're about to deliver).
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  • hn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good
    Reviewed in Germany on August 27, 2025
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  • Ashman
    5.0 out of 5 stars BDD Bible
    Reviewed in Canada on July 26, 2014
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    This is THE book on BDD. Gojko explains how to form great habits and shares experiences from lots of teams and different perspectives.
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  • Weldys Santos
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great to use
    Reviewed in Brazil on October 19, 2018
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    This is a great book to help to specifying requirements to small and huge software
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  • Sascha W.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for every software developer
    Reviewed in Germany on June 6, 2018
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    This must be the best software development book without any code I've ever read in my entire career. It's a great guide on how to deliver the RIGHT software since that is different from delivering the software right - one is a solution the customer actually needs, the other one a polished solution which nobody needs and doesn't solve the underlying problem.
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