Bryan Helmkamp discusses story driven development (SDD) as the next generation of Rails functional testing. SDD uses executable specifications in the form of stories and scenarios to drive development and ensure features work as intended. It addresses common problems like unclear requirements and unknown behavior by using stories to define features and scenarios to test functionality.

1. Story Driven Development
The Next Generation of
Rails Functional Testing
Bryan Helmkamp

2. Given a developer named Bryan
And he is speaking at GoRuCo
When he gives his talk
Then you should not fall asleep

3. Some Problems
• What does the feature really mean?
• When is the development done?
• What can we get done by when?
• Does the application still work?
• How does the system behave?

4. “Getting Real” with
Requirements

5. Confidence in
Refactoring

6. Executable
Documentation

7. What is SDD?