Michael Dowling has 17 years of coding experience and is currently an architect at Wells Fargo responsible for an Agile rollout. Spectacular is an ATDD tool that allows teams to use different ATDD tools and languages in a single place to keep documentation and requirements understanding together without losing Agility. It works by having the team collaborate on story requirements as tests in tools like FIT or Gherkin, then the developer writes fixtures and executes the tests in Spectacular, which reports the results all in one document. The goal is to have all tests and requirements in a single artifact that is easy to trace as different test styles are used.

1. SpectacularA Brief Introduction

2. Who is Michael Dowling?Coding 17 years, since I was 15 (you do the math)Started with Perl, TCLC/C++Java & .Net (C#)Groovy & Ruby (sorta)Agile since 2002Architect at Wells Fargo since 2006Responsible for Agile Rollout in Wholesale LOBTeam coaching, mentoringI like Eeyore.Logical, cynicalMyers Briggs: INTJ (“Systems Builder”)

3. What is Spectacular?“Let’s invite everyone to the party!”ATDD tool that uses everyone else’s ATDD toolsKeeps story documentation and team understanding of requirements in a single place without losing AgilityAllows teams to use a variety of ATDD tools in a variety of languagesIntroduces Executable Use CasesGet it? Spectacular?

4. How does it work?Team Collaborates on Story RequirementsTeam Documents Story Requirements as Tests(FIT and/or Gherkin and/or Executable Use Cases)Developer Writes Fixtures(Java, Groovy, Ruby, Selenese)

5. How does it work?Developer Executes SpectacularExecutableUse CaseSpecGiven…When…Then…Gherkin/BDDFIT

6. How does it work?Spectacular Reports Results (in the same document!)Given…When…Then…Given…When…Then…

7. Why?Practically speaking, different ATDD test “styles” help express different types of requirementsWith each “style” comes a different document, repository, toolCollection of different tests become scattered, difficult to trace; no single artifact with all of the requirements & tests.

8. UpcomingRetrieve specs from version control automaticallySupport specs on Google WaveSupport Javascript Tests (Rhino?)Support ConcordionSupport Robot FrameworkRetrieve specs from Pivotal Tracker, Version One, MingleUI for defining specs

9. More InformationMichael Dowling’s Bloghttp://blog.minderupt.com/Spectacular ATDD/BDD Toolhttp://spectacular.minderupt.com/Current Backloghttp://spectacular.minderupt.com/backlog/