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Recap: Early Preview of the Living Documentation Event
- 5 October 2026
The idea behind the session was simple: three speakers used the evening to preview and sharpen the talks they will bring to the Living Documentation Event. The audience was explicitly invited to help with that. And that is exactly what happened.
Throughout the evening, the interaction was open, practical and constructive. Questions, examples from daily work and different professional perspectives helped turn the session into more than a sequence of presentations. It became a shared exploration of what Living Documentation, BDD, Model-Based Testing, AI and actionable documentation can mean in real teams.
Robert Deckers opened with Model-Based Gherkin: Bringing Structure and Consistency to Large-Scale BDD. His session focused on a familiar challenge in larger BDD implementations: once scenarios grow across teams, projects and time, terminology starts to drift, contradictions become harder to spot and it becomes difficult to know whether the specification is still complete, consistent and living.
Kyra Hameleers then continued with Beyond the Hype: How Can BDD, MBT and AI Complement Each Other? Her talk compared BDD, Model-Based Testing and AI by looking at different parts of the test process: specification, generation and execution. Rather than treating any of these as a silver bullet, the conversation explored how they can strengthen each other: GenAI can support parts of the BDD process, models can contribute to living documentation, and MBT remains a powerful way to reason about testing.
Kyra also used Mentimeter to involve the audience and make the different experiences in the room visible. Some participants worked with BDD regularly, others only occasionally. MBT and AI were familiar to part of the group, while others brought different perspectives. When asked what helps achieve quality, clear requirements, quality by design, testable acceptance criteria and testing all scored highly. And when asked for the “silver bullet” for enhancing quality, the answers were telling: communication, collaboration, people, shared understanding, curiosity, precision and sustainable pace.
Rick Tracy closed the evening with From Ticket Hell to Team Flow. Using the story of Romeo & Jira, he challenged the idea that task management is simply about moving tickets across a board. A useful ticket should make work visible, understandable, actionable and finishable. It should tell the team what problem is being solved, how it will be addressed, how done will be recognized and where the evidence can be found. The discussion around Jira habits was very recognizable, from unclear statuses to shadow systems where the real work actually happens.
The conversation continues
That may be the best summary of the evening. Tools, models, tickets and AI can all help, but they only become valuable when they improve the conversations, feedback loops and shared understanding around the work.
The conversation continues at the Living Documentation Event, where the theme Fast Flow, Strong Foundations: Scaling Shared Understanding in an AI-Accelerated World connects directly to the questions we explored during this Knowledge Hub evening. Several of the ideas previewed on 17 September will return there in a fuller form.
Use discount code KRT50ICT for a €50 discount on your Living Documentation Event ticket.
What’s next?
Our next ICT Knowledge Hub session will take place on 17 November with Ger Cloudt: Software Quality as a System: Why your software quality problem is probably not a code quality problem.
Ger will explore software quality as an emergent property of the system that creates the software, rather than something that can be reduced to code quality or testing alone. Using the 1+3 Software Quality Model, we will look at how organizational quality enables design quality, code quality and product quality.
This is not a session about testing less. It is a session about understanding what testing often reveals: quality problems that originate earlier and deeper in the system.
