How do you avoid the two silent killers of scale: bad automated tests and bad documentation?
In this talk, Błażej Drobniuch (Autodesk) introduces AI-BDD: a practical approach to turning real team conversations into living documentation—using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example, and generative AI tools like Copilot/Cursor.
Błażej argues:
Bad tests are worse than no tests (brittle, coupled, slow feedback)
Bad documentation is worse than no documentation (misleading and outdated)
Without clean tests and living docs, you lose the ability to refactor—and eventually, to scale
What you’ll learn:
Why automation exists: reduce the cost of change
How BDD creates living documentation using Gherkin (Given/When/Then)
The 3 BDD practices: Discovery → Formulation → Automation
Example Mapping and “three amigos” collaboration
How to recognize good vs bad Gherkin (and why most orgs get it wrong)
The BRIEF checklist for high-quality examples:
Business language • Realistic data • Intent-revealing • Essential steps • Focused & brief
Using AI to generate first-draft scenarios from transcripts—as inspiration, not truth
A pragmatic rule for where to start automating in legacy systems: automate what changes most
📍 Recorded at LeSS Conference 2026 — Amsterdam
🎤 Speaker: Błażej Drobniuch
Download the presentation here: https://less.works/conferenza/sessions/2025-global-less-conference-amsterdam-ai-bdd-how-to-turn-conversations-into-living-documentation-using-generative-ai-448
