Pattern Language
The quality automation problem space is the scope of opportunities to automate measuring, recording, and delivering quality information on the SUT to the people and processes of the … more
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What’s to like or dislike about Test-Driven Development (TDD)
TDD is important to the BDD/Cucumber plan for how information flows through a team. There is no concept of business requirements in BDD (which is risky, but I write about that in my book) so first … more
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What I dislike about BDD / Cucumber: Architectural issues
Cucumber relies on statements about SUT behavior organized in given/when/then syntax, also called Gherkin language. This forces authors to break their statements up and organize them by preconditions, … more
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What I dislike about BDD / Cucumber: Promises, promises…
The book opens (page 3) with a well-written section on communication between stakeholders and programmers. On page 5, “What makes Cucumber stand out from the crowd of other testing tools is that it … more
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What I like about BDD / Cucumber
I like applying a “ubiquitous language” that is standard across roles for a given project. That should improve communication, especially across roles. On pages 135-136 the authors make some good … more
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What I dislike about “The Cucumber Book, Second Edition”: How it relates to software development
On page 97, there is a section called “Tester Apartheid:”
“Testers are too often unfairly regarded as second-class citizens on a software team.”
As someone who has done significant work in the … more