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CukeUp!: Matt Wynne on Refuctoring Your Cukes
Refuctoring Your Cukes
Cucumber aims to help business stakeholders and developers collaborate more effectively. That's great if you care about helping your project succeed, but what about the rest of us who just want to hang on to our damn jobs? In this talk you'll learn how to use Mortgage-Driven Development (MDD) to destroy the readability and value of your Cucumber tests, so that you can protect your position as the only person who understands what the system does:
  • Learn the simple refuctorings that gradually, over time, will undermine and ultimately destroy the readably of your cukes so that business stakeholders no longer take any interest in them, and you can get back to coding in peace.
  • Take inspiration from the Rails community, who have developed a suite of plugins for writing features that only the most impertinent stakeholder would care to read.
  • Be the hero: Learn some common MDD patterns that will make your Cucumber tests so brittle you'll always be kept busy fixing the build. Your boss will love you!
Whether you're brand new to Cucumber or a die-hard aficionado, this humorous talk gives some great insights into how to create and maintain high-quality Cucumber test suites that work for everyone on your team.

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ABOUT MATT WYNNE
Matt Wynne works as an independent coach, consultant and trainer, helping teams like yours learn to enjoy delivering software to the best of their abilities. He is a core developer on the Cucumber project, and co-author of The Cucumber Book and Cucum
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