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.
Follow Aslak at @aslak_hellesoy
Talks I've Given
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Sub-Second TDD with a Dash of Honey
Featuring Josh Chisholm and Aslak Hellesøy
When developers can get feedback on a change within a second, productivity goes through the roof. Many developers know how to write fast unit tests, but what about full-stack acceptance tests exercising a GUI, server side domain logic and persistence?
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Testable Software Architecture with Aslak Hellesoy!
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
How long do your acceptance tests take to run? 10 minutes? An hour? A day? Do your acceptance tests sometimes pass, sometimes fail depending on the phase of the moon? Whenever an acceptance test fails, do you sometimes spend hours or days to diagnose the cause of failure because the test touches...
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Testable Software Architecture
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
We are excited to have Aslak Hellesoy speaking at #BDDx 2016!
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Kind of Green
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
BDD is a collaborative approach to software development with heavy emphasis on ubiquitous language and domain modelling. It is a fantastic complement to DDD.
BDD is also a bit like Jazz. There is no authoritative definition of what it is. It has emerged from independent practices and it is...
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Workshop: Good Gherkin
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Good Gherkin strikes a balance between being specification, documentation and tests. Learn a dozen guidelines for good Gherkin and practice on a real domain.
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Keynote: Kind of Green
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
BDD is like Jazz. There is no authoritative definition of what it is. It has emerged from independent practices and it is constantly evolving. Different practitioners interpret it very differently.
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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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Behaviour Driven development with Cucumber-JVM
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is a collaborative approach to software development that bridges the communication gap between business and IT.
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BDD and DDD
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak Hellesoy, the creator of Cucucmber, explores the similarities and functions of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Domain Driven Design (DDD).
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DDD meets BDD
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
BDD is heavily inspired from DDD and TDD. Following a conversation over a drink with Eric Evans at last year's event, Aslak has agreed to share his experiences with the New York DDD community. Aslak will cover the basics about how these powerful techniques can be used together to create...
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Taking Cucumber to the next level
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
The number of teams adopting Cucumber around the world is steadily increasing. This has created a lot more work for the team behind Cucumber. The keynote will explain what the Cucumber core team is doing to make sure the Cucumber ecosystem will stay healthy for years to come.
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Cucumber and the JVM
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak will show you how to use Cucumber-JVM with Java, Groovy or your favourite JVM language to drive both client-side and back-end code.
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Keynote: What's new on the Cucumber Platform
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Cucumber just turned 5 years old, and the project has never been more active. In this session Cucumber creator Aslak Hellesøy will cover the most recent developments as wells as giving expert insight into where he thinks Cucumber is headed.
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Keynote: The Cucumber Ecosystem
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
Where are we now and how do we ensure that Cucumber scales for years to come?
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Getting started with Cucumber-JVM
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
At last year's CukeUp, Aslak announced that work had started on Cucumber-JVM - a pure Java implementation of Cucumber that runs on half a dozen JVM languages. A year later, Cucumber-JVM 1.0.0 is released and ready to take the JVM by storm. This presentation shows you how to install...
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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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Cucumber from the horse's mouth
Featuring Aslak Hellesøy
In only 2 years, Cucumber has grown to become one of the world's most popular open source tools for BDD, and executable documentation. It has over 300.000 downloads and contributions from over 250 people around the world. What is it that makes this tool so popular? Could you benefit from it...
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