Acknowledgments

A project such as this book would not be possible without the support of so many helpers. First of all, I would like to thank Dale Emery, who provided me great comments on my writing style. Being a non-native English writer, I really appreciated the feedback I got from Dale.

A special thank you goes to Kent Beck. In August 2010 I approached him on the topic of writing a book on ATDD following the approach he used in TDD by Example. He also introduced me to Addison-Wesley and to Christopher Guzikowski, who provided me all the support to get this book published.

Several people have provided me feedback on early drafts. For this feedback I thank Lisa Crispin, Matt Heusser, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Brett Schuchert, Gojko Adzic, George Dinwiddie, Kevin Bodie, Olaf Lewitz, Manuel Küblböck, Andreas Havenstein, Sebastian Sanitz, Meike Mertsch, Gregor Gramlich, and Stephan Kämper.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank my wife Jennifer and our children Katrin and Leon for their support while writing this book. I hope to be able to return the time you had to deal without a husband or a dad in the years to come.