Applicability of Acceptance Test Driven Development in Integration and Verification Process in a Large Scale Company

Abstract: This paper presents a case study that is conducted in Network Integration and Verification (NIV) at Ericsson AB, a large-scale telecommunication software and systems company. Ericsson is transitioning to delivery which is the reason why they are interested in improving their integration and verification process. By modeling and investigating the current process, and based on the collected data, we were able to identify certain issues related to inter-department communication in the current process. A process improvement proposal inspired by Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) was created. In the end, we experimented and evaluated our proposal through a workshop which gave us positive feedback regarding the proposed process. The result of the study indicates that ATDD can be beneficial to improve the communication and thus the efficiency of the product test process at a large scale company.