09:30-10:00    REGISTRATION AND WELCOME AT CUKEUP!

Registration and welcome

10:00-10:45    KEYNOTE: THE CUCUMBER ECOSYSTEM

Cucumber is 5 years old and has grown into a big ecosystem. Where are we now and how do we ensure that the org scales for years to come? more...

10:45-11:00    BREAK

Coffee, tea, and refeshments

11:00-11:30    WHY YOUR STEP DEFINITIONS SHOULD BE ONE-

Matt Wynne: Many teams are now carrying around the baggage of a few years' automation with Cucumber. As a travelling consultant, Matt gets to see the good, the bad and the ugly sides of all this experience.

He's lived to tell the tale, and in this talk he'll share those tales with you. You'll learn the pitfalls to avoid, and the tricks and general principles to keep your Cucumber test suites easy to maintain for the long game. more...

11:30-11:45    BREAK

Coffee, tea and refreshments.

12:15-13:15    LUNCH

11:45-12:15    WORKING IN THE CUCUMBER WORLD

Andrew Premdas: At the centre of Cucumber's implementation is the `world` construct. In this talk I explore this structure, and in particular the naming of it. more...

12:15:13:15    LUNCH

13:15-13:45    HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION TO CUCUMBER.JS

Julien Biezemans & Matt Wynne: Julien Biezemans, author of Cucumber.js and Matt Wynne, a long-standing Cucumber core team member will facilitate a short hands-on workshop during which you'll get the opportunity to understand the basic concepts, conventions and syntax to get started with Cucumber in a pure JavaScript environment. more...

13:45-14:00    BREAK

14:00-14:30    CROSS-PLATFORM BDD FOR MO

Karl Krukow: This talk will demo an approach to cross-platform BDD using Cucumber and Calabash. We will focus on reusing more than just features across platforms! We'll also touch upon topics such as end-to-end testing and monitoring. more...

14:30-14:45    BREAK

14:45-15:15    THE IMPERSONATOR PATTERN

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen: This talk describes a different approach to writing cukes following a pattern that has evolved from working on several customer projects, The Impersonator Pattern. more...

15:15-15:30    BREAK

15:30-16:00    DON'T YOU TRUST ME?

Seb Rose: Seb Rose discusses an approach that he has been experimenting with using Cucumber's tagged hooks to control the amount of application stack that a scenario exercises. more...

16:00-16:15    BREAK

16:15-16:45    TESTING WEB APPS WITH CUCUMBER.JS

Paul Jensen: This talk will cover using Cucumber.js to test a realtime-web application, drawing on experiences in testing Dashku.com, and give the audience tools and tips for how they can bring the wonderful world of Cucumber to the realtime-web. more...

16:45-17:15    PIZZA & BEER

The pizza and beer reception this year is kindly sponsored by JetBrains!

17:15-17:45    PANEL DISCUSSION

: A ParkBench Panel discussion, to discuss ideas, stuff we learned during the morning and stuff we would like to hear more about. You will not only be able to ask your questions, but are also actively encouraged to join the panel to express your opinion and share your experience! more...

11:00-11:30    EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES

Phil Trelford: This talk focuses on Specification by Example, showing the benefits of giving examples in tabular form for both collaboration and automation. more...

11:45-12:15    PRODUCTIVE TESTING WITH CUCUMBER AND JET

Andrey Vokin: With the number of your Cucumber tests increasing you need more and more time to find a step definition usages or look up where they are placed in your code. In this talk I want to show how our tools save your time while working with Cucumber and how code analysis routine works in JetBrains products. more...

13:15-13:45    CUKE ENVY - A .NET PROGRAMMERS ATTEMPT T

Marcus Hammarberg: In this presentation I'll introduce ways to get by doing Specification by example on the .NET by recreating a demonstration from the Cucumber book. more...

14:00-14:30    CREATING DATA WITH THE TEST DATA BUILDER

Alan Parkinson: This talk describes how to apply the Test Data Builder Pattern to Cucumber-JVM for creating test data on-demand without direct database manipulation. more...

14:45-15:15    DEVELOPING AND TESTING FACEBOOK APPS

Michael Nacos: This talk will be based on a recent project I did for an international social media agency. more...

15:30-16:00     ONE TESTING STORY FROM JETBRAINS

Kirill Likhodedov: This talk is about the practical testing experience with Cucumber in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA and RubyMine projects. Why did we choose Cucumber? What difficulties have we been facing with and how did we solve them? Meet several examples with some interesting details on how we use Cucumber tests in IntelliJ-based products. more...

16:15    TOWARDS AUTOMATIC SCENARIO GENERATION BA

Melanie Diepenbeck & Mathias Soeken: Following the behavior driven development (BDD) methodology thoroughly, one would expect 100% code coverage, since code is only written to make the tests pass. Based on this assumption we have investigated BDD-driven projects and found out that this is not the case. more...