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CukeUp! 2012: Julien Biezemans on Cucumber.js: Cuke up your JavaScript!
Cucumber.js: Cuke up your JavaScript!
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.

A year ago, native BDD solutions similar to Cucumber were almost inexistant. Yet the need for it was manifest. It didn't take me long before I proposed and started hacking on the port of our favourite cucurbitaceae.

Cucumber.js is a native JavaScript implementation of Cucumber. It is a strict port that can run on any JavaScript environment. It runs on Node.js as well as within any browsers, making it virtually serviceable against everything producing JavaScript and HTML (Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PHP, .Net, etc.).

This is an introduction to the young Cucumber.js. After briefly exposing the history and goals of the project, I'll demonstrate how to write features, step definitions, hooks, support code, how to invoke it from both Node.js and browser environments.

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Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

Janet Gregory's three day practical agile testing course demonstrates how testers can become valued agile team members, how they contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value, and provides ways to overcome common cultural and logistical obstacles in transitioning to an agile development process. Janet Gregory's Practical Agile Testing course describes the values and principles that help testers adopt an Agile QA mindset, and how the whole team contributes to the success of any testing practices, including test automation. Find out more here

Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2012 (Nov 23)

Join us for the next Agile Testing & BDD eXchange on November 23. 2012. Be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

Follow updates on speakers and programme or suggest ideas and topics on twitter, tag #bddx. Get more info and sign up here.

Practical Agile Testing with Janet Gregory

Janet Gregory's three day practical agile testing course demonstrates how testers can become valued agile team members, how they contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value, and provides ways to overcome common cultural and logistical obstacles in transitioning to an agile development process. Janet Gregory's Practical Agile Testing course describes the values and principles that help testers adopt an Agile QA mindset, and how the whole team contributes to the success of any testing practices, including test automation. Find out more here

Jon Jagger & Kevlin Henney's Agile Development for Developers

Kevlin Henney's three day Agile Development for Developers course looks at the Agile principles, practices and processes that offer a path to sustainable development for individuals, teams and organisations. For many Developers who want to focus on their craft, it is sometimes difficult to get a view of Agile development that is neither focused on a project management perspective nor just on the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD).. Find out more here

Kevlin Henney & Jon Jagger's Mastering Agile Practice

For a developer, deliberate practice means trying new things, trying old things with a view to making them fresh and trying to move from accidental practice to intentional discipline. Deliberate practice improves technical agility through increased self awareness.
    Learn to:
  • Evaluate and improve our test cases using Test-Driven Development
  • Learn pairing and team skills by putting them into practice
  • Identify blindspots in our own thinking, such as evaluating the quality of our own work
  • Learn how to learn and how to unlearn through deliberate practice
Find out more here

Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development Workshop

Gojko Adzic's two day workshop on Test Driven Development (TDD) enables you to experience and learn test driven development by doing it. You will be immersed in a realistic TDD project, allowing you to learn the practices and principles of test driven development and try them out in practice. Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will experience two days of working on an agile test-driven team.

You will use and learn basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and related agile practices such as continuous integration and pair programming. You will understand the reasons behind TDD and experience its benefits first-hand. By applying what you learn, you will be able to build quality into software from the start, design and develop systems fit for purpose and write code that is easy to maintain and evolve in the future. The is a completely hands-on workshop with coding straight from the start, interrupted by very short presentations to explain the practices and put things into a wider perspective. It is based on the very latest tools, current knowledge and ideas from the community. Find out more here

Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce's Growing Real Systems Guided by Tests

Steve Freeman's Growing Real Systems Guided by Tests is an advanced course for those who want to improve their practice of Test-Driven Development. This 2 day Test-Driven Development course shows how to use tests to guide the development of software. We show how to apply this critical skill, using test friction to show us where the boundaries in the code should be so that we can write expressive, coherent code. We also show how TDD works at the larger scale, helping us build reliable systems that fit into the usual soup of third-party services. In particular, we address working with asynchrony and distribution. Find out more here

Robert Schneider's Mission Critical Service Testing Using soapUI Pro

In this two day Mission Critical Service Testing Using soapUI will teach you how to use the powerful capabilities of soapUI Pro to answer important questions prior to placing these services into production.

The class is structured around the highly regarded 7 Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing methodology, created by Think88 based on interviews with customers in a variety of industries, as well as extensive analysis of the most effective service deployments.. Find out more here


ABOUT JULIEN BIEZEMANS
Julien is a fervent BDDer who loves writing code, building well-crafted conducive software as well as sharing knowledge and techniques with other passionate people.
More about Julien Biezemans
PODCAST CUCUMBER.JS: CUKE UP YOUR JAVASCRIPT!

This session took part at the CukeUp! 2012. You can view the other 22 podcasts here.
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JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 PODCASTS
Luke  Hoban:TypeScript, TypeScript
Luke Hoban : 20th May 2013
View Podcast: TypeScript,
Dmitry Buzdin:Writing Hybrid GWT/JavaScript Applications , Writing Hybrid GWT/JavaScript Applicatio
Dmitry Buzdin : 13th May 2013
View Podcast: Writing Hybrid GWT/JavaScript Applications ,
Dawid  Skłodowski:DCI with Ruby & Rails, DCI with Ruby & Rails
Dawid Skłodowski : 13th May 2013
View Podcast: DCI with Ruby & Rails,
Randy Morgan:Exploration of mruby, Exploration of mruby
Randy Morgan : 13th May 2013
View Podcast: Exploration of mruby,
 :Routing, Traversal and URL Dispatch, Routing, Traversal and URL Dispatch
: 7th May 2013
View Podcast: Routing, Traversal and URL Dispatch,
Various Speakers:Lightning Talks, Lightning Talks
Various Speakers : 7th May 2013
View Podcast: Lightning Talks,
 :Postcard of the Pyramid's Views, Postcard of the Pyramid's Views
: 7th May 2013
View Podcast: Postcard of the Pyramid's Views,
Hadi Hariri:Introduction to Kotlin Workshop, Intro to Kotlin Workshop
Hadi Hariri : 2nd May 2013
Podcast Coming Soon: Introduction to Kotlin Workshop,
Benjamin Cabé:Using Lua for the Internet of Things with Eclipse Koneki and Mihini, Using Lua for the Internet of Things wit
Benjamin Cabé : 25th Apr 2013
View Podcast: Using Lua for the Internet of Things with Eclipse Koneki and Mihini,
Chris Buckett:HTML5 User Group - April, HTML5 User Group - April
Chris Buckett : 17th Apr 2013
View Podcast: HTML5 User Group - April,
Arun Nagarajan:JavaScript in the Cloud to extend Google Apps, JavaScript in the Cloud to extend Google
Arun Nagarajan : 17th Apr 2013
View Podcast: JavaScript in the Cloud to extend Google Apps,
Martin Thompson:Performance Testing Java Applications, Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson : 15th Apr 2013
View Podcast: Performance Testing Java Applications,
Damjan Vujnovic:JavaScript from the trenches, JavaScript from the trenches
Damjan Vujnovic : 11th Apr 2013
View Podcast: JavaScript from the trenches,
Omar AL Zabir:7 real life lessons learnt from a Single Page Application, 7 real life lessons learnt from a Single
Omar AL Zabir : 9th Apr 2013
View Podcast: 7 real life lessons learnt from a Single Page Application,
Andrey Breslav:Introduction to Kotlin, Introduction to Kotlin
Andrey Breslav : 3rd Apr 2013
View Podcast: Introduction to Kotlin,
OTHER JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 EVENTS
London Ajax User Group:Teststack, Dojo 2, and More, London Ajax User Group
FREE EVENT: Teststack, Dojo 2, and More
London, Wednesday, May 22nd
Backbone.js London:Introduction to Backbone Marionette, Backbone.js London
FREE EVENT: Introduction to Backbone Mario
London, Thursday, June 6th
London Ruby User Group:LRUG June Meetup, London Ruby User Group
FREE EVENT: LRUG June Meetup
London, Monday, June 10th
Richard Clark:Richard Clark's HTML5 Mobile Mastery,  Richard Clark's HTML5 Mobile Mastery
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Richard Clark
London, Monday, June 17th
Richard Clark  Building mobile services that scale,  Building mobile services that scale
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Richard Clark
London, Tuesday, June 18th
Damjan Vujnovic:Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop,  Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Damjan Vujnovic
London, Wednesday, June 26th
Russel Winder:Russel Winder's Python Workshop,  Russel Winder's Python Workshop
4 DAY COURSE. Featuring Russel Winder
London, Monday, July 1st
Damjan Vujnovic:Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop,  Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Damjan Vujnovic
London, Wednesday, August 21st
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