Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2015
Thank you!!!
Thank you for joining us at the Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2015!! We had a terrific time, we hope you did too! A massive thanks to our great programme committee, all speakers, sponsors and to everyone who joined us this year!
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What happened at Agile Testing & BDD eXchange London 2015?
Speakers & Program
Agile Testing & BDD eXchange is crafted for and by the community and this year is no exception! We received lots of ideas, talks and feedback from our community this year, resulting in a packed programFind the full line-up here.
CodeNode, the venue
CodeNode is home to Skills Matter's developer community and the UK's largest venue dedicated to technology events, so we could not think of a better space to host Agile Testing & BDD eXchange.Find more details about the venue here.
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Day 1: Day 1
Thursday
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Gojko AdzicAs a consultant, Gojko has helped companies around the world improve their software delivery, from some of the largest financial institutions to small innovative startups. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular impact mapping, agile testing, specification by example and BDD.
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Potential vulnerabilities within a build candidate may be functional and driven using Selenium WebDriver in the form of a traditional penetration test or API based and verified using SSLyze. Example scenarios will be presented against the secure content of the Skyscanner web site. The solution will be finally demonstrated as running fully integrated within the release pipeline running against AWS, built from Team City using Ansible and executing vulnerability tests against both pre-production and production environments. |
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Agile, and BDD in particular, try to solve this problem through steady and deliberate discovery. What if you don't have time to be steady? What if you need to start bridging this gap very quickly with a new customer at the beginning of a new project, almost every week? Enter the project discovery - a way to get on the same page with many businesses in an agency-like environment. This talk will present a collaborative process built on top of Agile and BDD practices aimed to replace requirements gathering and contract negotiation processes with Agile delivery planning. |
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Docker containers can be used for running automated scenarios with different drivers, browsers or configs. e.g PhantomJS, Selenium, etc. This talk will cover:
Demo: Running Cucumber scenario heedlessly with Poltergeist
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Shashikant JagtapCheck out his blog about iOS Development Toolkit : XCBlog |
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Have we thrown away too much of our more structured analysis methods? Why is it so hard to start small? You will explore a range of divergent and convergent practices, and how to use the right tools at the right time to deliver value as quickly as possible. The session will finish by exploring some concrete techniques you can take home and start using straight away to achieve convergence at the each point in the software lifecycle.
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Pete BuckneyWhat makes Pete tick is working with teams to discover and build the technology a business really needs. He's passionate about using collaborative approaches, and believes in the power of examples to give all relevant experts direct involvement in the software under development. Pete is active in the Agile/BDD community, speaking at meet-ups and conferences such as DDDX, BDDX and CukeUp. He co-authored SkillsMatter’s BDD Fast Track training course with Jenny Martin, and delivers this regularly. Follow Pete on Twitter @PeteBuckney. 
Jenny MartinJenny believes that great teams are built on collaboration, shared responsibility and by embracing individuality and diversity. Jenny is active in the software development community as an expert in team collaboration and effectiveness and a regular speaker at events across Europe. She has 20+ years of leadership experience delivering large scale projects on multiple platforms, tools and technologies in the customer loyalty, retail and finance sectors. |
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In this talk Aslak will teach you some architectural patterns that will help you achieve faster tests that are easy to fix and maintain, and work as great documentation.
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Aslak HellesøyFollow Aslak at @aslak_hellesoy |
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Most frameworks evolve as responses to other frameworks, which means they are often anchored (or stuck) in a particular point of view. And often that point of view is fairly narrow and, somewhere along the line, influenced by JUnit. What makes TDD effective is focus, clear progress and expression of intent; frameworks do not typically change what is possible, simply what is convenient. This talk reconnects with the essentials by taking a lo-fi approach to framework usage.
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Kevlin HenneyKevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests, contributions and work with companies covers programming, people and practice. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that “a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled”). He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online. |
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(All names have been changed to protect the innocent).
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Nat PryceHe works programmer, architect, trainer, and consultant in a variety of industries, including e-commerce, media, telecoms, finance, retail and marketing communications. He has delivered business-critical systems that range from embedded devices to large compute farms supporting global business. |
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In this talk Sandro will explain the pros and cons of the two main styles of TDD when it comes to software design, he'll discuss why some developers can test-drive well-crafted code while others can’t, and he'll also explain how to reason about design decisions. |
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In this talk, Steve will revisit the basics, the essence of what makes TDD work. You will explore some of the common difficulties that Steve sees with teams that are struggling. He will show how understanding the principles means that you can use to help you deliver more effectively. |
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Analysis and Synthesis - or how to get the balance right
Featuring Pete Buckney and Jenny Martin
Jenny and Pete take a critical look at the modern analysis paradigm, and wonder why it is still so easy to end up in user story hell or spend years building the wrong thing.
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Bridging The Communication Gap, Fast
Featuring Konstantin Kudryashov
Konstantin puts it to you that one of the biggest problems in the software industry manifest from the gaps in shared understanding. This leads businesses to make technological choices with limited knowledge of technology impacts, or worse, technology delivery teams to make business choices...
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Does TDD really lead to good design?
Featuring Sandro Mancuso
"TDD is a design tool." That’s what Sandro has said for years. But not anymore. After working with different teams and in different organisations, and also carefully inspecting how he works, Sandro changed his mind about the role of TDD in software design.
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How Skyscanner Integrates Automated Penetration Testing into a Continuous Delivery Pipeline using BDD Defined Security Scenarios
Featuring Craig Scott-Angell and David Brownhill
Agile development squads within Skyscanner that have security verification requirements for their user story acceptance criteria will have these defined using BDD-style scenario profiles. The presentation will explain how the expectations of a typical security test is defined and subsequently how...
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Raw TDD
Featuring Kevlin Henney
Looking around at the blogosphere, OSS repos and conferences, it might be easy to assume that test-driven development is all about frameworks — unit-testing frameworks, mocking frameworks and frameworks for dealing with frameworks.
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The Future of Automated Testing
Featuring Gojko Adzic
Gojko presents emerging trends in the testing tools space and predicts how you'll be using tools differently ten years from now.
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TDD: That's not what we meant talk
Featuring Steve Freeman
Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been so successful that it's now unfashionable. But many developers complain that being required to write tests just gets in the way of shipping features. That wasn't your experience when you first stumbled onto TDD a dozen years ago, so what went wrong?...
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Designing for Evolvability
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Are you drowning in Cucumber scenarios?
Do they take too long to run?
Do you spend a long time to fixing them when they fail?
Are they costly to maintain when your system evolves?
Do they suck as documentation?
These symptoms usually arise from a deeper problem: The system isn't designed for...
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Dockerizing BDD : Ruby-Cucumber Example
Featuring Shashikant Jagtap
One of the key benefit of the BDD is automated feature files or automated scenarios. Some scenarios we need to run in different browsers or with different setup. It would be awesome if we have virtual images provisioned with all our scenario execution requirements and we can achieve that with...
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Three Test Automation Horror Stories (and what you can learn from them)
Featuring Nat Pryce
Nat will tell a trio of tales, of true-life troublesome tribulations with test automation on large, complex projects. But he won't just terrify you. He’ll reflect on the lessons we learned about how to better integrate test automation into software projects large and small.
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