35:Matt Wynne: BDD and The Cucumber Book

The Cucumber Book – Behavior-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

Are you trying to get up to speed on Behavior Driven Development (BDD), but are finding all the information hard to digest?

When you’re in a meeting do you wonder why everyone suddenly has a craving for cucumbers? Are you responsible for test automation and want to know how it all fits in BDD? Do you want to know what level of detail your BDD scenarios should be written in?

In this episode, you’ll hear the answer to these questions and many more as we test talk with Matt Wynne, author of The Cucumber Book.

About Matt Wynne

Founder of Cucumber Ltd, core developer on the Cucumber project a and co-author of The Cucumber Book – Behavior Driven Development for Testers and Developers

Quotes & Insights from this Test Talk

• Cucumber is a tool for running acceptance tests.
• Acceptance tests are a kind of automated test that you would write with a non-technical stakeholder, like a Product Owner, on the team.
• Customer-facing acceptance tests focus on how the story is going to behave after you have implemented it. It defines what the customer is going to consider as acceptable.
• Each example in a feature file is an example of good behavior in a system.
• Most teams that think they’re doing Agile are really just doing Scrum, and are not practicing test driven development.
• Deming quote: “Let’s make toast the American way – you burn it, I’ll scrape it.”
• Discover how to get developers to buy into BDD and TDD
• Two main reasons why some developers don’t test are that they don’t have time or they don’t know how.
• Learn how to listen to your tests
• Use Gerkin to help you collaborate with other members of your team and to help get your team’s understanding documented somewhere.
• Much, much more!

Resources

• The Cucumber Book – Behavior Driven Development for Testers and Developers
• Cucumber Recipes – Automate Anything with BDD tools and Techniques
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests – Nat Pryce
• BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle – John Smart
• Behavior-Driven Development: Using examples in conversation to illustrate behavior – Liz Keogh

Connect with Matt

• Twitter: @mattwynne
• Blog:http://blog.mattwynne.net/
• Company: https://cucumber.pro/

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