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Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way

You're reading from   Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way Bridge the gap between software requirements and executable specifications to deliver successful projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206465
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fred Heath Fred Heath
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: The Requirements Domain 2. Chapter 2: Impact Mapping and Behavior-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Writing Fantastic Features with the Gherkin Language 4. Chapter 4: Crafting Features Using Principles and Patterns 5. Chapter 5: Discovering and Analyzing Requirements 6. Chapter 6: Organizing Requirements 7. Chapter 7: Feature-First Development 8. Chapter 8: Creating Automated Verification Code 9. Chapter 9: The Requirements Life Cycle 10. Chapter 10: Use Case: The Camford University Paper Publishing System 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing Features with Gherkin

We write Features in a structured manner, using a natural language subset called Gherkin (https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/). Gherkin documents, such as a feature file, are written in a specific syntax. Most lines in a Gherkin document start with a keyword, followed by our own text. These keywords are as follows:

  • Feature
  • Rule (as of Gherkin version 6)
  • Scenario (or example)
  • Given, When, Then, And, *
  • Background
  • Scenario Outline (or Scenario Template)
  • Example

Comments are only permitted at the start of a new line, anywhere in the feature file. They begin with zero or more spaces, followed by a hash sign (#) and some text. Gherkin supports over 70 languages, from Arabic to Uzbek, so we can write our Features in any language we choose.

A Feature's outline is as follows:

Feature: My Beautiful Feature # The Feature title

## We can write anything we want from here until the next keyword 
## As...
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