Songkick.com is a web based music startup which from an early age adopted Acceptance tests and Behaviour Driven Development as part of its development cycle. Key to this was the use of the Ruby based BDD framework Cucumber and the idea of working outside in. Having spent more than 2 years growing our system and learning the pain points both technically and culturally we have lots of interesting lessons we would like to share.

Covering such areas as how Cucumber fits into our overall process, how Acceptance tests fit in a rapidly evolving startup environment, how we write acceptance tests and who is involved, how we cope with long build times by scaling our tests over distributed machines, examining the dangers of over reliance on just acceptance tests, evolving developer centric acceptance tests to customer focused language, engendering trust in the acceptance tests and using metrics to help limit the time we spend in the red.

	Cyber Dojo Jon Jagger : 3rd May 2012
	REST & BDD Brian Sletten : 2nd May 2012
	Technical Intro to CD Sam Newman : 30th Apr 2012
	Using Real User Metrics to Measure Perfo Tom Bassindale : 26th Apr 2012
	Continuous Deployment Rob Harrop : 24th Apr 2012
	Fluency : 24th Apr 2012
	- Sharepoint For Thinking Developers : 24th Apr 2012
	Scrum and your brain : 24th Apr 2012
	The Congruent Programmer : 24th Apr 2012
	C++11 for the rest of u : 24th Apr 2012
	Find(ing) bugs is easy : 24th Apr 2012
	The Rant Of Three : 24th Apr 2012
	Style C++ For Version Control : 24th Apr 2012
	The Beard Heuristic : 24th Apr 2012
	Not Only, But Also… : 24th Apr 2012