Acceptance Test Driven Development with Jira

Maxime Lemaniss1

Hi there,

We would like to do Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), that is to say, write user stories in a precise format (given / when / then, or equivalent), parseable by a tool to run automated tests (against source code through "fixtures", or against GUI through GUI driver tools like Selenium).

We already tried Fitnesse, Cucumber, etc. but as we're using Jira, we would prefer to have a unique repository / tool for managing our stories.

Is there any Jira plugin that allow to do ATDD, or to integrate with third party ATDD tool?

Thanks,

Maxime

Renjith Pillai

I am not sure whether you need a plugin for this as this is more of a practice that needs to be followed in the project. This is what we used to follow. We used to have an issuetype called testcase and with some custom fields like 'pre-condition', 'post-condition' to fully describe the testcase. So for every userstory there will be a set of testcases which are linked to the userstory using the Jira linking function. The link that was used was 'is tested by' even though the type of link has no relevance apart from correcting displaying the relation while viewing the story.

The testcase issue type also was associated with a workflow which moves from states New => Under Testing => Success/Failure

Additionally, our CI system automatically transistions the testcase to success when the testcase passes in the CI and this becomes the closure DONE criteria for the userstory.

Hope this helps.