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From Manual to Automated Acceptance Tests

Apr 20, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Professional Scrum Developers agree that automated testing is awesome and a must-have. But if your team isn't there yet, "go automate everything" is useless advice. The good news is that the path from …

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Reusing Tests and Building a Regression Suite

Mar 4, 2026 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Every Sprint you build a test plan full of acceptance tests. When the Sprint ends, what should you keep, and how? Not everything deserves to outlive its Sprint, but the tests that protect your …

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Inspecting Test Progress Mid-Sprint

Jan 12, 2026 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If your forecasted PBIs are expressed as failing acceptance tests, then progress becomes wonderfully simple to read. The more passing tests, the more progress. Right after Sprint Planning there should …

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A Naming Convention for Test Cases

Nov 17, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A single PBI with five acceptance criteria can produce five or more Test Case work items. Multiply that across a forecast of eight PBIs and you're staring at 40-some test cases in a Sprint. Without a …

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ATDD on a Scrum Team, Concretely

Aug 6, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Starting work by creating failing tests can feel counterintuitive and weird. It also works. Test-driven development proves that every day. Acceptance test-driven development, or ATDD, takes the same …

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Acceptance Is Not Acceptance Testing

Jun 16, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As I visit with software development teams, I keep running into the same confusion about the word "acceptance." Two ideas get jammed together that really shouldn't be. Let me pull them apart, because …

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Write Acceptance Criteria You Can Actually Test

Apr 28, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Acceptance criteria are the Product Owner's or stakeholders' definition of success for a given PBI. Most teams write them as prose, a few sentences describing what the feature should do, and then move …

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Turn Acceptance Criteria Into Test Cases by Paste

Mar 3, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You've written good acceptance criteria for a PBI. Now you want one Test Case work item per criterion so the Developers can swarm, test, and deliver in a more asynchronous way. Typing each one by hand …

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Azure Test Plans Is Your Sprint Plan, Not Just a Test Tool

Jan 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most teams I meet think Azure Test Plans is simply about creating and running tests. That's how Microsoft promotes the product and how it tends to get demoed. It can certainly do those things. But …

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