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International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering

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Generative Acceptance Testing for Difficult-to-Test Software

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3092))

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While there are many excellent acceptance testing tools and frameworks available today, this paper presents an alternative approach, involving generating code from tests specified in a declarative tabular format within Excel spreadsheets. While this is a general approach, it is most applicable to difficult-to-test situations. Two such situations are presented: one involving complex fixture setup, and another involving complex application workflow concerns.

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  1. Jennitta Andrea
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    Jutta Eckstein

  2. Informatik og Matematisk Modellering, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Lyngby,  

    Hubert Baumeister

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Andrea, J. (2004). Generative Acceptance Testing for Difficult-to-Test Software. In: Eckstein, J., Baumeister, H. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_4

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