09.30-10.00    

Registration and welcome more...

10.00 - 11.00    GETTING STARTED WITH CUCUMBER-JVM

At last year's CukeUp, I announced that work had started on Cucumber-JVM - a pure Java implementation of Cucumber that runs on half a dozen JVM languages. A year later, Cucumber-JVM 1.0.0 is released and ready to take the JVM by storm. This presentation shows you how to install Cucumber-JVM, use it with Groovy or Java, and run scenarios from the command line or in your IDE with JUnit. more...

11.00 - 11.15    BREAK

Coffee, tea, and refeshments

11.15 - 11.45    TESTING FOR VALUE

Colin Humphreys: How do we test that our behaviours are actually delivering? How do we know that our new features actually increased toaster sales? Our test suite can be greener than the greenest cuke, yet we could still be failing as an organisation. Colin Humphreys explores bringing the rigour of behaviour-driven development to the value-driven world of business. more...

11.45 - 12.00    BREAK

12.00 - 12.30    LIVING DOCUMENTATION

Chris Roff: Many teams lose out on big benefits of Cucumber by focusing too much on the short-term benefits.
Join Chris Roff to learn how a small investment in long term benefits can help you get more out of your cukes even in the short term. more...

12.30 - 13.30    LUNCH

13.30 - 14.00    BDD: WHEN OUTCOMES DON'T COME OUT

Elizabeth Keogh: BDD is largely a goal-driven approach: we start from a context and explore whether some particular event will lead to the outcome we want.
So how does it work when the outcomes are unclear, or you're just trying to find out what's possible? When finding examples changes the examples, is it possible to automate? more...

14.00 - 14.15    BREAK

14.15 - 14.45    LEARNING FROM MISTAKES WITH BDD

Tony Bruce & Andrew Jutton: Tony Bruce & Andrew Jutton discuss what caused us some issues when implementing BDD. We have a list of items and we'll basically go through as many as we can in our allotted time. more...

14.45 - 15.00    BREAK

15.00 - 15.30    EXPERT EXECUTABLE SPECIFICATIONS

Vagif Abilov & Peder Søholt: This talk for CukeUp presents a case study based on a project at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) where executable specifications in Gherkin were introduced to ensure correct understanding between developers and domain experts. Choice of Gherkin/SpecFlow gave an opportunity for experts to have direct impact on the executable code and for developers to avoid misinterpretation while translating domain knowledge to business logic. more...

15.30 - 15.45    BREAK

15:45 - 16:15    TEST-DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Jon Topper: In this talk for CukeUp Jon Topper will investigate if we can apply a software testing approach to validate our infrastructure configuration. more...

16.15 - 16.30    BREAK

16.30 - 17.00    CUCUMBER-RUBY 2.0 PANEL DISCUSSION

Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy, Oriol Gual, Julien Biezemans and Jonas Nicklas have all had a crack at taking Cucumber in a new direction (Spinach, Turnip, TextMapper, Cucumber JVM), and there are valuable ideas in all of them. This panel will be a discussion about: more...

17.00 - 18.30    PIZZA & BEER

11.15 - 11.45    USER CENTRED SCENARIOS

Antony Marcano & James Martin : Many teams don't realise that their Cukes are actually describing the solution they're building rather than the user-capability they're enabling. The closer to the solution our Cukes are, the less flexibility we have and the less maintainable ... more...

12.00 - 12.30    PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH CUCUMBER

Michael Nacos: User-centric product features often span multiple subsystems of a service stack. For example, user state changed in a web app may affect routing of their emails, which is handled by a daemon.
Cucumber helps us concentrate on the user and decouple product features from their implementation. At the same time, representing just enough infrastructure in our cucumber World allows us to verify product correctness before deploying to a single server. more...

13.30 - 14.00    SPEEDIER TESTS WITH PARALLEL EXECUTION

Gaspar Nagy: BDD tests usually exercise the application with external dependencies. The benefits of end-to-end testing are well known, but these tests tend to have a long execution time. SpecRun aims to speed up the execution of the (SpecFlow) functional tests by parallelizing them. This session summarizes the experience we have gathered in various projects. more...

14.15 - 14.45    CALABASH FOR IOS AND ANDROID

Karl Krukow: This talk for CukeUp will introduce Calabash and LessPainful, which provides hosted, cloud-based execution of Calabash tests that run concurrently on many physical, non-jailbroken devices running various languages and operating system versions. more...

15.00 - 15.30    CUKE UP YOUR JAVASCRIPT!

Julien Biezemans: We're now living the golden age of JavaScript. An increasingly number of people are seeing it as a complete language. Therefore, agile development practices are now being adapted and applied to JavaScript code production. However, there has been a lack of support tools in the JS ecosystem, compared to what can be found on other platforms.
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15.45 - 16.15    BDD FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN

Mathias Soeken & Melanie Diepenbeck: We are currently evolving the BDD flow for the design of embedded systems. Automatic extraction of step definitions and code stubs is performed using natural language processing techniques. In addition, a method has been developed to extract properties suitable for formal verification from test code. Both approaches have been integrated with Cucumber. more...