What If Documenting Were Enough to Test?
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This talk explains using automated tests as readable documentation by combining Living Documentation and Golden Master techniques with Example Mapping. It presents a method to generate functional, non-regression descriptions of behavior that are understandable by non-developers and shows how to implement it, the maintenance benefits, and the changes in how testing is conceived.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:00Documentation vs tests
- 7:30Living documentation
- 12:45Demo with ApprovalTests
- 20:20Advanced use cases
- 29:00Implementation benefits
- 34:20Challenges and best practices
- 40:28Q&A
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