Pickle with Cucumber

Published March 10th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format. Pickle gives you cucumber steps that create your models easily from factory-girl or machinist factories/blueprints

http://railscasts.com/episodes/186-pickle-with-cucumber

Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing

Published February 18th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Cucumber is a tool that can execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. The language that Cucumber understands is called Gherkin. While Cucumber can be thought of as a “testing” tool, the intent of the tool is to support BDD. This means that the “tests” (plain text feature descriptions with scenarios) are typically written before anything else and verified by business analysts, domain experts, etc. non technical stakeholders. The production code is then written outside-in, to make the stories pass. Cucumber itself is written in Ruby, but it can be used to “test” code written in Ruby or other languages including but not limited to Java, C# and Python. Cucumber only requires minimal use of Ruby programming and Ruby is easy, so don’t be afraid even if the code you’re developing in is not Ruby. Gojko will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices for writing and maintaining Cucumber scenarios.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/using-cucumber-for-bdd-and-agile-acceptance-testing

Javascript Stories

Published January 6th, 2010 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Javascript Stories: The Animal, Mineral or Vegetable guide to testing javascript in web applications. Rob Holland describes his talk as follows: The talk will cover how to use capybara with cucumber to easily write and run stories including javascript functionality. The talk should be useful to people who don’t currently test their javascript, or those who are already doing so with another framework.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/ajax-ria/javascript-stories

Using Cucumber to Test CLR Assembly

Published November 25th, 2009 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This screencast shows how to unit test a .NET CLR assembly using Cucumber BDD Framework.

How We Build Quality Software at uSwitch.com

Published November 25th, 2009 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

This video provides an experience report on how we build quality software at uSwitch.com. Around 9 months ago the development team shifted from having a separate QA team to adopting a whole-team approach for building and delivering software with quality baked in. This talk explains why we made this shift, provide an insight into how we achieved it from a people and process point of view and delve into tooling. It includes:
- Why testing along the production line is better than testing end-of-cycle.
- How we make sure we get thorough acceptance criteria up front, before we start development.
- How we automate execution of acceptance criteria with cucumber and watir.
- How we run these continuously in TeamCity.
- Why we stopped using QTP and Selenium.
- How our developers learnt to think like testers.
- Why we stopped using the words ‘tester’ and ‘testing’.
- The importance of BDD for writing testable code.
- How kanban principles help radiate information on development and provide tracking and reporting on quality.
- Peripheral activities that help us continuously release quickly and confidently.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/how-we-build-quality-software-at-uswitch-com

Cucumbered

Published November 11th, 2009 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/wilk-cucumber

Working Outside-in with Cucumber and RSpec

Published August 31st, 2009 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Look at the idea of working Outside-in and the importance of focusing on customer value. Introduce Cucumber a testing tool which allows writing plain text feature documentation which through Ruby steps is executed. Examine how to use it, why it is useful and how it compares with existing tests such as Rails integration tests. Look at how Cucumber fits into the testing workflow, how it compliments Behaviour Driven Development and give practical examples with Rail projects. Examine some of the common problems/questions developers have had trying to get to grips with Cucumber and Outside-in testing.

http://scotland-on-rails.s3.amazonaws.com/1A06_JosephWilk-SOR.mp4

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