Grigori Melnik announced the kickoff of a new guidance project by Microsoft Patterns & Practices - Acceptance Test Guidance Project.
This looks to be a pretty interesting guidance project. Grigori mentions the focus of the project as well as a little bit about the proposed methodology:
"The topics we plan to focus on in this project include:
- test objectives and strategy,
- product readiness/acceptance,
- defining and reconciling good-enough criteria in various industrial contexts,
- working with customers and customer-proxies,
- supporting stories/requirements with acceptance tests.
We intend to support our guidance with case studies and exercises from the real world. We are running this project as an agile project, with weekly iterations."
I am sure we will hear more on this in the upcoming weeks so stay tuned.