Presented at GoTo Night Zurich, June 12 2014 Many teams struggle with the implementation of user story acceptance criteria and establishing a shared understanding about the expected story outcomes. This results in missed stakeholder expectations and ad-hoc assumptions made by the team. High efforts for regression testing and the lack of a reliable documentation about the current system behavior are further problems resulting from an unstructured approach to define and validate acceptance criteria. In this session, you will learn how specification-by-example addresses these problems and overall increases the level of clarity on the project end-to-end. The presentation will cover the theory and practical experience from real projects, with concrete implementation examples based on the Gherkin specification language, that can be used for automated specification validation (available for .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript). You will leave this session with a fundamental understanding of specification-by-example and its benefits, as well as concrete pointers on how to get started using it in your own projects.