-
Learn how to do Specification by Example
I’m speaking here:
- Agile Practitioners 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30-31 January 2012
- Software Passion Summit, Göteborg, Sweden, March 19-20, 2012
- Scandinavian Developers conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 17, 2012
- Dutch Testing Conference, Bussum, NL, 18 April
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May 2012
Designing good Cucumber feature files
Alister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now…
Archive for March, 2009
-
QCon London 2009: What have we learned from 10 Years of TDD?
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 4 CommentsDuring the Test Driven Development: Ten Years Later talk today at QCon 2009 in London, Steve Freeman and Michael Feathers presented a “random walk through the history of TDD” and key lessons learned by the community in that period. -
QCon 2009: No more Lego analogies, please!
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 4 CommentsWhile presenting the Pragmatic Real-World Scala talk at QCon London 2009, Jonas Bonér introduced functional programming as something that ultimately leads to more usable code and compared it to Lego, in a sense that you can take functions, combine them easily to get new functions etc. Sounds familiar? OO anyone?... -
QCon London 2009: MOM interoperability – Finally!
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 3 CommentsDuring the AMQP in Action session at the QCon 2009 conference in London the speakers presented what seems to be a very interesting solution for probably the biggest issue in messaging middleware today– interoperability. Message oriented middleware (MOM) is often standardised at the API level (such as JMS) but individual... -
QCon London 2009: Is software engineering?
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 2 CommentsSir C.A.R. Hoare presented an opening keynote at QCon London 2009, titled “The Science of Computing and Engineering of software”. During the keynote, he tackled two questions that keep arising in the software development community: is computing a science and is software an engineering discipline? -
Your opinion required: Next Open Source .NET Exchange date
Posted on March 9, 2009 | No CommentsWe’re preparing for the next Open Source .NET Exchange, to be held in July in London, and discussing whether to organise it over a weekend or during the working week. If you are interested in attending the next exchange, would it be better for you if it is organised: As...
|
|