Live, Virtual Course

Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time

Write Right Agile User Story Acceptance Tests Workshop

is a Live One-Day Intensive Seminar Workshop - Presented by Robin Goldsmith

Thursday September 11, 2025 From 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Eastern Time

Agile project participants regularly report great difficulties with supposedly-simple user stories and even greater difficulties with their supposedly equally simple acceptance tests.  Moreover, what little guidance the industry offers often contributes to the difficulties. 

Equating acceptance tests with non-functional requirements and over-emphasizing “automated” Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) acceptance test execution can’t help but produce inadequate tests. 

This interactive workshop reveals reasons user story acceptance tests fall short of their hype, explains critical concepts needed for effectiveness as tests, and uses a real case to provide participants guided practice writing and evaluating user story acceptance criteria/tests that indeed give demonstrable confidence user stories have been satisfied. 

• Proper purpose of user story acceptance tests and common obstacles to achieving it.

• Helpful and not-so-helpful places for non-functional requirements and automated BDD execution.
• Key testing concepts/techniques for more  effective user story acceptance criteria/tests.

 WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for business and project managers, product owners, QA/testers, analysts, developers, and other project team members who are or should be involved in defining requirements/user stories and confirming they are satisfied.

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