A Lightweight Semi-automated Acceptance Test-Driven Development Approach for Web Applications

Applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in the context of web applications is a difficult task due to the intricateness of existing tools/frameworks and, more in general, of the proposed approaches. In this work, we present a simple approach for developing web applications in ATDD mode, based on the usage of Screen Mockups and Selenium IDE. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38791-8_55 A Lightweight Semi-automated Acceptance Test-Driven Development Approach for Web Applications Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Gianna Reggio, Filippo Ricca DIBRIS, Università di Genova, Italy [email protected], {maurizio.leotta, gianna.reggio, filippo.ricca}@unige.it Abstract. Applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in the context of web applications is a difficult task due to the intricateness of existing tools/frameworks and, more in general, of the proposed approaches. In this work, we present a simple approach for developing web applications in ATDD mode, based on the usage of Screen Mockups and Selenium IDE. Applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in the context of web applications is a difficult task due to the intricateness of existing tools/frameworks and, more in general, of the proposed approaches. In this work, we present a simple approach for developing web applications in ATDD mode, based on the usage of Screen Mockups and Selenium IDE.