A discovery workshop is a conversation where technical and business people collaborate to explore, discover and agree as much as they can about the desired behaviour for a User Story.

Check Cucumber website for an introduction to Discovery Workshops.

Example mapping

Before you pull a User Story into development, it’s crucial to have a conversation to clarify and confirm the acceptance criteria.

Example mapping is a collaborative technique for making this conversation short and productive.

Rules vs Examples

Acceptance Criteria vs. Scenarios

Some common confusion I’ve come across recently involves the difference between a Scenario and Acceptance Criteria. I’ll start by defining these two things as I understand them. A scena…

Other Resources

Matt Wynne’s blog on Example Mapping:

Introducing Example Mapping | Cucumber

Before you pull a user story into development, it’s crucial to have a conversation to clarify and confirm the acceptance criteria.

Seb Rose’s video “Discovery - The first practice of Behaviour-Driven Development”:

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