Stimulus

A new tester joins the team, who has no development skills. This person is supposed to test the new business features of the upcoming release.

Reaction

The tester reads the acceptance test documentation and starts to write new automated acceptance tests.

Metric

A tester without development skills can learn the acceptance test concepts in less than one day.

Background

An automated acceptance and integration testing framework helps to verify the correctness of business (or domain) functionality. These tests are written in a domain-specific language.