Learnings from the land of payroll and workplace pensions development

The last article in this series talked about the basics of AE. Before diving into the implementation, and in the spirit of Test Driven Development, this article covers an approach for testing AE implementations using the Gherkin test language. See this repo on GitHub for a fairly complete set of Gherkin tests for AE.

Automatic Enrolment, often referred to as auto-enrolment, or AE for short, was introduced into the UK workplace in 2012, off the back of the new Pensions Act of 2008. The basic idea is that most people in the UK weren’t saving enough for their retirement, and no amount of encouraging them was going to fix…