My Article "From here to Acceptance Test Driven Development - 9 Landmarks to find your way" has been published in Better Software Magazine... make sure you pick up a copy.

Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) means many things to many people—from “It’s all about testing” to “It has nothing to do with testing,” and from “TDD, ATDD—it’s all the same” to “TDD and ATDD are nothing alike.” Each of these statements describes ATTD from a single perspective, but neither encapsulates the entire meaning. This is often because different people notice different aspects of ATDD depending on where they are coming from.

Here’s a style of development I once proposed. I was reminded of it at SDTConf.The project was to allow scientists to ask questions of a big database. There was a product owner who understood the scientific domain and - importantly - could have used the database to answer the questions (either by constructing SQL queries [...]