Writing and maintaining a suite of Acceptance Tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this Workshop, Dave Farley will guide you through a “Four-Layer Approach” to organising and developing testing infrastructure to make tests easy to write, easy to understand, and flexible in the face of system change. You will explore the link between an effective, story-based, approach to requirements and the techniques for translating them into Executable Specifications.

In this course Clare and Emily will explore and practise some powerful technical coaching techniques that can be used by those in technical leadership positions to enhance their developers’ ability to work well together.

Kent Beck and Jessica Kerr will step through an introduction to systems thinking. With examples from software and life, and concepts like feedback loops and leverage points and propensities, we will step through the basics of seeing and changing systems.

With your ticket you’ll have full access to the 2 days of the conference, a welcome bag, drinks, food and the party.