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Beyond Cucumber - management with cucumber.fm
The experience we gathered during this time and the challenges that we face let us experiment with new approaches in using cucumber. One of them is 'Scenario Impact' (first known as Side Effect).
Michal Czyz
Michal Czyż has been working professionally with web applications as developer since 2007 and this allowed me to gather experience pertaining to all steps of valuable system development.
What makes a good feature file
David De Florinier
David de Florinier has helped numerous teams implement best specification-by-example practices. David is a frequent speaker at leading software development and testing conferences and also regularly contributes to the UK Agile Testing group. Over th
Gojko Adzic
Gojko is a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. He is the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award. Gojko's book Specification by Example won the Jolt Award for the Best Book of 2012, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best outline publication in 2010. Gojko is a frequent speaker at software development conferences, including NDC, Agile Days, Oredev, and YOW!, and is one of the authors of MindMup and Claudia.js.
Wip, Kanban and whole-team BDD
Perryn Fowler
Perryn is a Software Consultant of 14 or so years experience. He has been helping software teams use BDD since before it was called that. Over the years he has used (and contributed to) a number of tools including FIT, Selenium, rspec story runner an
Keynote - Aslak Hellesoy
Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak Hellesøy is the creator of Cucumber and co-founder of Cucumber Limited. He is a co-author of The Cucumber Book and an early adopter of XP and BDD.
Aslak works as a programmer, software architect, business owner and trainer in a variety of industries, including finance, telecom and retail.
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Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano is co-founder of RiverGlide, a coaching, consultancy and training firm helping teams and organisations innovate with agility. He has been in software development for nearly 25 years, almost 20 of which have been either working in teams or guiding them and the organisations around them, as they aspire to greater agility. Antony is as much a practitioner as he is coach, consultant and trainer in topics from writing communicative, maintainable code to User Stories & BDD to effective team models, approaching change and Kent Beck's emerging 3X framework.
Feature Injection
Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano is co-founder of RiverGlide, a coaching, consultancy and training firm helping teams and organisations innovate with agility. He has been in software development for nearly 25 years, almost 20 of which have been either working in teams or guiding them and the organisations around them, as they aspire to greater agility. Antony is as much a practitioner as he is coach, consultant and trainer in topics from writing communicative, maintainable code to User Stories & BDD to effective team models, approaching change and Kent Beck's emerging 3X framework.
Chris Matts
Chris Matts has over 10 years of experience in investment banking including strategy work as a practitioner rather than as a consultant. His specialist areas are real options, IT risk management, business value and agile analysis. He has been working in exotic credit derivatives for the past few years.
Cucumber – Scaling up
Arti Mathanda
Arti has worked as a QA Analyst at companies like ThoughtWorks, Argos, HomeAway and the BBC
Richard Brown
Richard currently works as a Test Engineer at the BBC. Previously worked as an IT Manager in the Market Research industry
Cucumber for startups
Michael Nacos
Michael Nacos enjoys playing with computers but gets bored easily. He has worked as an IT trainer, web developer, linux sysadmin, database developer, email engineer, cloud architect and tech lead. These days he helps companies build products and teams, using open source tools to deliver progressive web and mobile experiences that hit the mark.
Acceptance Test Driven Infrastructure Development with Cucumber and Chef
Stephen Nelson-Smith
Stephen Nelson-Smith (@LordCope) is principal consultant at Atalanta Systems, a fast-growing agile infrastructure consultancy, and Opscode training and solutions partner in Europe.
Advanced acceptance testing w Capybara
Jonas Nicklas
Jonas Nicklas is a Ruby developer from rainy Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the primary author of Capybara and an early adopter of Cucumber, staying faithful when others were tempted by a more carnivorous diet. During the day he works for Elabs where he's
Cucumber on the JVM with Groovy
This talk includes automating Cucumber scenarios with Groovy, from writing step definitions, working with tables, to exposing commonly used functionality with Cucumber's World mixin. Driving acceptance tests with Geb (a Groovy DSL for Selenium) will get you started with automating your scenarios through a browser.
Richard Paul
Richard Paul is a software developer with a keen interest in testability, acceptance testing and behaviour driven development.
Deliberate Discovery - Step Away From The Tools
Daniel Terhorst-North
Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide.
Functional BDD
Phil Trelford
Phil is an active member of the software development community, regularly attending and speaking at user groups and conferences, blogging and contributing to open source projects. He is a co-organizer of the London F# User Group and a founding member of the F# Foundation.
Songkick's path down the Cucumber road.
This talk will cover how Cucumber fits into our overall process, how Acceptance tests fit in a rapidly evolving startup environment, how we write acceptance tests and who is involved, how we cope with long build times by scaling our tests over distributed machines, examining the dangers of over reliance on just acceptance tests, evolving developer centric acceptance tests to customer focused language, engendering trust in the acceptance tests and using metrics to help limit the time we spend in the red.
Joseph Wilk
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he finally found Ruby.
Refactoring Your Cukes
Matt Wynne
Matt is the author of The Cucumber Book, and in 2013 he cofounded Cucumber Limited with Aslak Hellesøy and Julien Biezemans. Their company was acquired by SmartBear in 2019 and he now works as a BDD Advocate with a mission to maximise the adoption of BDD practices in the software industry.
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Keynote - Aslak Hellesoy
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak opens the conference with a keynote on Cucumber's history, community and the roadmap for Cucumber.
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What makes a good feature file
Featuring David De Florinier and Gojko Adzic
In this interactive workshop, Gojko and David will go through examples of good and bad feature files and distill with your help what makes a good feature file. We'll focus on topics such as domain language, technical specifications vs business processes, self-explanatory files, specifications...
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Bootstrapping Cucumber Münchhausen-Style
Featuring Jan Brauer
How do you get a BDD setup up and running with a big PHP system, previously not designed for testability? What are the pitfalls and hiccups you are likely to encounter? How will your team response if you tell them to learn Ruby?Use Cucumber to pry open that oblong box your software is and...
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Wip, Kanban and whole-team BDD
Featuring Perryn Fowler
This talk will aim to answer the following: How can you make BDD something that the whole team does, and not just the developers? How does it work when non coders are writing cucumber? What is Kanban? How can you use Kanban in software development? How does the 'wip' feature of cucumber...
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Cucumber on the JVM with Groovy
Featuring Richard Paul
Cucumber isn't a tool exclusively for the Ruby world. The JVM is a very popular development platform and you can leverage your existing skills by automating your scenarios with Java, or its expressive by closely related brother Groovy.
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Deliberate Discovery - Step Away From The Tools
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North and Liz Keogh
In this talk, Liz and Dan introduce BDD from a new perspective, taking the focus away from the tools and scenarios and returning to the language, conversations and philosophies at its heart. With deliberate Discovery addressing our ignorance and misunderstanding across technology, people and...
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SpecFlow: The simplest way to marry Gherkin with .NET
Featuring Gaspar Nagy
SpecFlow is a tool from the Cucumber family, specialized for .NET ecosystem. SpecFlow uses the official Gherkin parser and provides integration to Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, NuGet and Silverlight. This session gives a brief introduction to using SpecFlow and shows the latest interesting...
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Functional BDD
Featuring Phil Trelford
F# is a powerful new .Net programming language from Microsoft bundled with Visual Studio 2010. This talk will look at how you can write shorter, safer, more readable step definitions with F# to test your .Net applications. Develop your test code interactively as scripts inside Visual Studio’s F#...
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Cucumber for startups
Featuring Michael Nacos
Early stage web startups need to get a lot done. How do you combine development hyper-drive with changing business requirements and evolving infrastructure without sacrificing quality? Enter cuke. It's got a light side, a dark side and it keeps the universe together. Our universe consists of...
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Cucumber – Scaling up
Featuring Arti Mathanda and Richard Brown
Addressing the challenges of introducing Cucumber in a large organisation and across multiple teams. Realising the benefits of having acceptance tests as a means of checking completion. Bringing Cucumber in alongside existing work practices to aid adoption.
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CukeSalad: Cucumber, chopped, dressed and ready to eat
Featuring Antony Marcano
As you write scenarios in Cucumber, you also need to maintain step-definitions. These files can become quite large (end therefore harder to maintain) or can become fragmented making reuse harder.
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Refactoring Your Cukes
Featuring Matt Wynne
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?
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Acceptance Test Driven Infrastructure Development with Cucumber and Chef
Featuring Stephen Nelson-Smith
The advent of modern programming frameworks such as Rails and Django, together with the ready availability of virtualisation, and the explosion of interest in configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef has revolutionised the web operations world.
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Advanced acceptance testing w Capybara
Featuring Jonas Nicklas
Capybara is a tool written in Ruby to acceptance test web applications, it was written with Cucumber in mind, and the two are the bestest of friends. In this talk I will show off some of the lesser known features of Capybara and how to use them in tandem with cucumber to create readable and...
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Songkick's path down the Cucumber road.
Featuring Joseph Wilk
Songkick.com is a web based music startup which from an early age adopted Acceptance tests and Behaviour Driven Development as part of its development cycle. Key to this was the use of the Ruby based BDD framework Cucumber and the idea of working outside in. Having spent more than 2 years growing...
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Beyond Cucumber - management with cucumber.fm
Featuring Michal Czyz
Work on big projects (1000 scenarios and more)creates unique challenges in managing and maintaining scenarios. Using tags for attaching meta data information helps to make the scenarios maintainable. To make this possible I have written a tool called cucumber.fm - this gives possibility to parse...
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Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Chris Matts
Feature Injection is an extention of the BDD family of tools to cover Business Analysis practices. Antony Marcano and Chris Matts will run a game that helps you understand how information flows in a project. The game builds on the idea that all value is in the output of a system. The game allows...
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CukeUp! 2016 - the progressive BDD conference for testers, devs and product owners
Two days in London
Want to meet the international BDD community and learn and share skills with some of the world's top experts, devs, testers and product owners? Discover the latest best practices and ideas? Then come and join us at CukeUp! 2016 in London!
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CukeUp! 2015 Waiting List
One day in London
This is the waiting list for CukeUp! 2015. Please drop your contact details to hear if a space at the event is available.
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CukeUp! 2015
Two days in London
Want to learn how BDD can help you and your team combat complex software problems? Want to network with your peers tackling similar software problems? Then join us in March for our fourth edition of this much loved conference.
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CukeUp! NYC 2014 - All about BDD
Two days in New York City
This two day conference and tutorials will explore various aspects of BDD in this New York community event. CukeUp! is organised and curated in partnership with Cucumber Limited and also runs annually in London.
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CukeUp! 2014
Two days in London
CukeUp! 2014 is a fast-paced conference co-organised by Skills Matter and Cucumber Limited - the company behind Cucumber. Together, we've been assembling the community since 2011 for this intense conference - this year we've added a day of workshops to allow you explore topics in their...
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CukeUp! NYC
One day in New York City
CukeUp! NY 2013 was the first ever conference all around BDD in NY.
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CukeUp! 2013
One day in London
Want to catch up on the latest developments ideas, and best practices in Cucumberworld? Want to hear from the creator of Cucumber Aslak Hellesøy?
We are proud to present the third annual CukeUp!, held at Skills Matter London.
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