Specification by Example Quotes

“Find the most annoying thing, fix it, and repeat”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Sell Specification by Example as a better way to do acceptance testing”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Adam Geras puts this more eloquently: “Quality is about being prepared for the usual so you have time to tackle the unusual.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Beginners think that there is no documentation in agile, which is not true. It’s about choosing the types of documentation that are useful.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Like cheap wine, long paper documentation ages rapidly and leaves you with a bad headache if you try to use it a year after it was created. On the other hand, maintaining a system without any documentation also causes headaches.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“As the data is shared, tests influence each other. People get confused very quickly. This is a premature optimization. Write tests to be data agnostic.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“The F-16 was successful because the design provided a better and cheaper solution than what the customer asked for.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Watch out for people who implement more than what was agreed on and specified with examples”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Implementing functional test automation will get the team to work closer and prepare the system for the use of executable specifications later.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software

“Eric Evans argued that agile as a term has lost all meaning because anything can be called agile now.”
― Gojko Adzic, Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software