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  "id": "methodology:acceptance-test-driven-development",
  "_kind": "Methodology",
  "_file": "domain/methodologies/methodologies-expanded.yaml",
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  "attributes": {
    "displayName": "Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)",
    "description": "A practice where the whole team collaboratively defines acceptance criteria\nbefore development begins, then uses those criteria to drive implementation.\nUnlike BDD which emphasizes behavior language, ATDD focuses on concrete\nexamples that become automated acceptance tests, ensuring every feature\nmeets explicit customer-defined expectations before being marked complete.\n",
    "methodologyKind": "quality-focused",
    "origin": "Ken Pugh",
    "yearIntroduced": "2003"
  },
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