Gojko Adzic

The BDD Given/When/Then scenario structure is great for workflows, but too verbose when a specification includes lots of similar cases or when complicated objects come into play. This is where Cucumber tables come in. Tables provide just enough structure to group related data together so that it can be efficiently manipulated and easy to understand in a scenario. After setting up Cucumber for .NET and going through a basic example, it’s time to learn how to use tables to make complex scenarios easier to read and manage. Continue Reading »

At the Oresund Developer conference in Sweden about two months ago, Aslak Hellesoy talked about recent changes to his Cucumber Behaviour-Driven Development tool, aimed at providing better support for platforms other than Ruby. Instead of using the tool through slow Ruby ports, .NET and Java developers got a chance to benefit from much quicker native integrations using a new wire protocol that allows Cucumber to talk to external systems. Richard Lawrence and Matt Wynne were very kind to work on a native .NET integration for Cucumber, called Cuke4Nuke, which recently got up to speed with Cucumber Ruby features. In this article, I’ll show you how to set up and use Cuke4Nuke to use Cucumber for .NET BDD development. Continue Reading »

At the Agile Specification, BDD and Testing Exchange last month in London, Dan North spoke about selling behaviour driven development to the business. He put forward a relatively controversial idea on estimation: treat all stories as equal. Estimate each story as size 1 and just be done with it. Although this idea might seem overly simplistic, I find it really appealing. Continue Reading »

I’m launching two new Behaviour-Driven Development workshops in late January.

Introduction to BDD is an intensive one day workshop which introduces behaviour-driven development to developers, business analysts and testers. The optional programming module is offered in Java or .NET, with Cucumber to automate BDD scenarios.

Hands-on BDD with Cucumber is a three day workshop which immerses the participants into a project driven by Specification by Example and Behaviour-Driven Development. The workshop is adjusted to fit your business domain and particular needs, so that the participants get real-world experience and instant benefits. It is combines the Introduction to BDD, a day of working on a realistic domain example taken from your recent project or a future phase of a project, and a day of programming exercises for test automation developers. During the workshop, we use Cucumber to manage BDD Scenarios. The programming modules can be either in Java or .NET.

These two workshops are offered at a 20% discount for all bookings made before 31st January 2010. For more information on these and my other workshops, check out the training page.

Both workshops are offered as on-site training only (there are no public workshops scheduled at this time). Contact my company, Neuri Ltd for more information and to book a workshop.

I facilitated an openspace session on acceptance testing and collaboration between business people, developers and testers at CITCON Europe last week. We started with a list of five common reasons why I’ve seen teams fail with acceptance testing but added five more during the discussion, so here’s an expanded top 10 list:

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