When we founded Cucumber in 2013, our goal was to provide commercial services and products that would fund the development of the Cucumber open source project.
Today I’m excited to announce that Cucumber Ltd has been acquired by SmartBear. We have spent half a year getting to know each other, and I am very confident that the Cucumber project will be in good hands.
This month on the Cucumber Podcast we sit down with Alex Schladebeck who identifies as a Tester. Sal Freudenberg and Steve Tooke - co-founders of Cucumber - ask her about her recent keynote appearance at CukenFest London as well as her thoughts on the role of modern testers on agile teams. Alex can be found on Twitter and works for Bredex a software consultancy shop based in Germany.
When creating our scenarios, we want to fully describe the desired functionality, but not over-describe it. We want our scenarios to do more than check for correct operation. We want to paint a picture of what’s intended that aids understanding by others (or even ourselves) in the future. Which details should we leave visible, and which should we hide? In this webinar presentation, we will look at ways to distil our scenarios down to their essence and remove distracting incidental details.
In this webinar recording, George Dinwiddie, an experienced BDD writer, practitioner, and enthusiast, gives you some tips for writing scenarios which sing.
In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our workshop leads and speakers about their experiences delivering software and what people will learn attending their session.
This time we sat down with Bruno Boucard and Thomas Pierrain. Bruno and Thomas will run a workshop session on Event Storming and Example Mapping, two techniques which have come to prominence in the last couple of years which help teams build understanding and explore the different routes to delivering value.
Towards the end of the first day of CukenFest London, we allow anyone from the audience to take to the stage to give a short, two-minute talk on a topic they think might interest an audience of BDD enthusiasts. It turns out this is always a lot of fun. In 2018 we had some excellent lightning talks including ones about mob programming, getting into tech without a tech background, and how wool can help you solve tricky software problems. In total we had 9 lightning talks, all of which are now on our YouTube channel.
In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our speakers about progressive software delivery techniques, BDD, and what people should expect to learn after attending their session.
Our guests this time are Jamie Knight & Lion and Mike Southgate (aka, Wookie). Jamie and Wookie will deliver one of our keynote talks at CukenFest focusing on how they built a financial detection tool harnessing the power of BDD and autistic thinking. They have a great story to tell and we're excited for you to hear it.
Software development has transitioned from a waterfall to an Agile approach over the past decade. Since Agile development involves continuous change, testing has become invaluable to prevent these frequent changes from introducing new bugs, or worse, breaking the application in production.
Most developers are familiar with test-driven development, or TDD, but Behavior-Driven Development, or BDD, is often misunderstood. The reality is that both of these approaches have benefits and drawbacks to consider.
In this article, we will look at TDD and BDD, explore the differences, and see how they can work together.
This blog post is the transcript of a conversation between our very own Seb Rose and InfoQ's Shane Hastie. The pair cover how Seb sees three central practices of BDD, his thoughts on including testers in code reviews, but he starts with why he thinks "passion" isn't a trait he looks for in colleagues.
In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our speakers about progressive software delivery techniques, BDD, and what people should expect to learn after attending their session.
This time we sat down with Alex Schladebeck, one of our keynote speakers. Alex is an agile tester consultant and linguist, well known in Agile and Testing circles as an excellent speaker and communicator. It was my colleague Sal Freudenberg who first suggested Alex as a keynote speaker for CukenFest, arguing that Alex cares as deeply about software quality as our audience does. So who better to deliver a keynote on the importance of the whole-team approach to software quality.
In the build up to our annual BDD conference, CukenFest London, we've spoken to a few of our speakers about software development, BDD, and their upcoming session in April.
Our first interview is with Marit van Dijk. Marit is a core contributer to the Cucumber OSS and a software and test engineer at bol.com. Marit will speak at CukenFest London on "Collaborating on Open Source".