P&P Summit Day One: Lunch Session

Today there was a lunch session given by representatives of the Microsoft Research group. They have been working on a tool called the Spec Explorer. This tool is used for a business analyst to lay out the spec in a series of workflow like descriptions to create a model of what the application is functionally supposed to do. That model is then used to generate a series of tests of the model. It can then be used to generate a series of tests to ensure the resulting application meets the spec.

This was pretty interesting. They have an older version out there called Spec Explorer 2004. It can be found online here. The next version, called Spec Explorer 2007 is due maybe in first quarter of next year.