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London Ruby User Group:Cucumber, Celerity, & FireWatir

Cucumber, Celerity, & FireWatir
Aidy Lewis is a software tester who uses Ruby for Story Testing, FireWater as an in-browser test tool, Celerity as a headless browser test tool and Cucumber as a framework for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
Aidy prefers the term Story Driven Development (SDD) over BDD as it is the language of the customer. Cucumber is an opensource tool largely written by Norwegian developer Aslak Hellesoy. It is a re-write of Dan Norths Rspec Story Runner. Cucumber works by parsing a natural language and treating it as real code, thereby improving communication between various stakeholders.

The customer 'stories' are called Features for the coding stage. Features consist of a title, a brief narrative, and an arbitrary number of scenarios. The title and narrative are written in free form.
The title and narrative are judged to have been satisfied by writing an acceptance criteria specified as a scenario. The scenario is broken down into a pre-requisite ('given'), an interaction with the system ('when'), and verification of the outcome ('then').

Aidy uses FireWatir, a subset of Watir which wraps Ruby around Javascript that invokes the DOM. An xpi is required which is available online. Celerity is the preferred test tool as it is API compatible with Watir. Also, with so many acceptance tests to run, Celerity is faster than a web browser. Following this, Adrian Longley, a web developer, demonstrated SDD by developing an application in real time.

ABOUT AIDY LEWIS

Aidy is an Agile automated acceptance and performance tester with over 10 years experience with a penchant for dynamic languages and open-source tools. Currently working for a large organisation based in London using Ruby, Watir, SoapUI and JMeter.
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RIA, AJAX & WEB COURSES

	ADOBE AIR INTRO
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	ADOBE FLEX INTRO
	ADVANCED HTTP SERVER ADMINISTRATION
	BRIAN SLETTEN'S SEMANTIC WEB BOOTCAMP
	BUILDING DYNAMIC WEB APPLICATIONS WITH AJAX
	BUILDING GOOGLE MAPS
	DOJO AND DIJIT IN DEPTH D
	DOJO DATA, GRIDS, CHARTS, COMET
	DOJO WORKSHOP
	HTML5 COMMUNICATION: USING WEB SOCKETS AND MORE TO
	OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - ADVANCED
	OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - BEGINNERS
	RDFA THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF STRUCTURED DATA PU
	RUBY BOOTCAMP
	RUBY ON RAILS WEB DEVELOPMENT

RIA, AJAX & WEB PODCASTS

	Re-writing Java classes in Scala - and m Colin Howe : 8th Feb 2010
	Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile accepta Gojko Adzic : 4th Feb 2010
	Rob Nicholson: Global Technology Outlook Rob Nicholson : 27th Jan 2010
	Dragonfly Mark Evans : 13th Jan 2010
	Redcar Daniel Lucraft : 13th Jan 2010
	Waking up to the New Economics of IT Emma McGrattan : 15th Dec 2009
	REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS WITH HTML5 Peter Lubbers : 9th Dec 2009
	DDD Alex Young : 9th Dec 2009
	Javascript Stories Rob Holland : 9th Dec 2009
	ParkBench Panel Discussion, Pizza & drin Russ Miles : 9th Dec 2009
	Groovy & Grails eXchange Keynote Guillaume LaForge : 9th Dec 2009
	Gant, the Groovy targeted scripting fram Russel Winder : 9th Dec 2009
	Easy & secure SOAPful Web Services Tareq Abedrabbo : 9th Dec 2009
	Building DSLs & Groovy Metaprogramming Venkat Subramaniam : 9th Dec 2009
	Building Killer RIAs with Flex and Grail Tomas Lin : 9th Dec 2009

OTHER RIA, AJAX & WEB EVENTS

	Dojo Connect CONFERENCE (3 DAYS) Online, Wednesday, February 10th BOOK NOW!
	London Ruby User Group FREE EVENT: Lightning Talk Evening London, Wednesday, February 10th
	London Geek Nights FREE EVENT: Hydras and Hypermedia London, Thursday, February 11th
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	HTML5 Communication: Using Web Sockets and more to 3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers London, Wednesday, February 24th
	HTML5 Communication: Using Web Sockets and more to 3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers Paris, Monday, March 1st
	Dojo Workshop 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Sam Foster London, Friday, March 5th