Simon Martinelli: Spec-Driven Development

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Start your development process with a blueprint. Most teams jump into coding and leave documentation for later, if at all. Too often this leads to maintenance issues, stalled modernization, and poor business alignment. Spec-driven development flips the order: the specification becomes the single source of truth that drives code, tests, and validation.

This pocket guide introduces the AI Unified Process, a lightweight framework that makes Spec-driven development practical in the age of generative AI. It shows how specs (requirements, use cases, entity models) can act as contracts, enabling AI agents and modern tools to generate, validate, and evolve software with far less guesswork.

Designed for busy teams, this book focuses on the principles of spec-first development, with AI Unified Process skills and templates as the primary enabler. It also introduces emerging tools like Amazon Kiro and GitHub Spec Kit for context. Alongside practical methodology, you’ll work through a hands-on case study that takes you from requirements to executable code. By the end, you’ll understand how to apply Spec-driven Development in practice, avoid common pitfalls, and integrate AI into a disciplined, scalable workflow.

What You Will Learn

Capture requirements in lightweight specs

Treat specs as executable contracts for code generation and testing

Apply the AI Unified Process to projects and team workflows

Integrate AI agents into a spec-driven lifecyce

Who this Book is for:
Software developers, tech leads, and architects with basic programming knowledge. No prior experience with requirements engineering or AI tools is required.

Über den Autor

Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, and Oracle ACE Pro with over three decades of experience as a software architect, developer, consultant, and trainer. He is the creator of the AI Unified Process and a strong advocate of Spec-Driven Development.
As the owner of Martinelli LLC, he coaches teams to get up to speed with AI-driven development. He regularly shares his insights through international conferences, articles, and his blog, Keep IT Simple, where he writes about AI, architecture, and modern Java development.
He is also a lecturer at two universities in Switzerland, where he teaches software architecture, persistence, DevOps, and cloud-native development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Why Spec-driven Development?.- Chapter 2: The AI Unified Process in a Nutshell.- Chapter 3: From Requirements to Specs.- Chapter 4: Writing Executable Specifications.- Chapter 5: Specs Driving Code in Practice.- Chapter 6: Specs As Test.- Chapter 7: Tools for Spec-driven Development.- Chapter 8: Case Study: Building a Simple Task Manager.- Chapter 9: Scaling Spec-driven Development in Teams.- Chapter 10: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and the Road Ahead.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Fachbereich:	Programmiersprachen
Genre:	Importe , Informatik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Apress Pocket Guides
Inhalt:	xxiii 152 S. 23 s/w Illustr. 152 p. 23 illus.
ISBN-13:	9798868828508
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	89588989
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Martinelli, Simon
Auflage:	First Edition
Hersteller:	Apress Apress Pocket Guides
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-14197 Berlin, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Simon Martinelli
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.10.2026
Gewicht:	0,277 kg