Acceptance test-driven development
Maybe the most important methodology in a project is the Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) or Story Test-Driven Development (STDD); it is TDD but on a different level.
The acceptance (or customer) tests are the written criteria that the project meets the business requirements that the customer demands. They are examples (like the examples in TDD) written by the project owner. It is the beginning of the development for each iteration, the bridge between scrum and agile development.
In ATDD, we start the implementation of our project in a different way to the traditional methodologies. The business requirements written in human language are replaced by executables agreed by some team members and the customer. It is not about replacing the whole documentation, but only part of the requirements.
The advantages of using ATDD are as mentioned:
It provides real examples and a common language for the team to understand the domain
It allows us to identify the...
