In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Seb Rose, a dispassionate developer, and one of the principals of Cucumber Limited about his work at Cucumber, the Cyber-dojo charity, designing a robust certification program and involving testers in code reviews
Why listen to this podcast:
• Cucumber is more than a testing tool – it is a collaboration tool
• There is a lot of confusion around what Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is and isn’t
• BDD is made up of three distinct practices: Discovery, Formulation and Automation – Cucumber is only about the Automation practice
• Provide concrete examples to communicate business needs using BDD to ensure that business rules are defined unambiguously
• Cyber-dojo is a place for people to practice their coding skills on many platforms
• Ideas around designing a robust certification scheme
The value of having testers involved in code reviews goes far beyond reading the code