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…
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A new problem for the agile testing community
Posted on April 22, 2011 | 12 CommentsAs an industry, I think that we are now well beyond the perception that quality can be controlled for success. Lots of good thinkers and thought leaders over the last 20 years have moved our thinking from control to assurance, but for the majority of teams I work with the... -
The wolf who cried boy
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 1 CommentHotel room. Time check: 10PM. Go to sleep, big workshop tomorrow. Buzzing. I’m half awake. Buzzing continues. Time check: 2AM. More buzzing. Buzzing? Definitely buzzing, outside my room door. Door open and buzzing is now really loud. I guess it’s some kind of burglar alarm. Burglar alarm in a hotel?... -
How is it even possible for code to be this bad?
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 45 CommentsIf you have a few minutes to spare, have a look at the Hudson/Jenkins source code on GitHub. Writing code like this wouldn’t just be a firing offense for any self-respecting commercial software team, it should also be enough to sue the writer for gross negligence and damaging company property.... -
Is prioritisation based on business value right?
Posted on April 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsAt the Scandinavian Developer Conference today in Göteborg, Alistair Cockburn spoke about “beyond agile: the new face of software engineering”. The main topic of his talk were five “chapters” that will according to Cocburn be a “broad base of software engineering in the next 20-50 years”, although I recognised most... -
The future of Cucumber
Posted on March 24, 2011 | 5 CommentsToday at the CukeUp conference in London, Aslak Hellesøy spoke about the current development and plans for Cucumber. Hellesøy said that Cucumber had over 120000 downloads and he estimates that there are 20000 people using it now. Since it was first released, more than 300 people contributed to this open...
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