10 years with BDD and SpecFlow

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

Believe it or not, SpecFlow is 10 years old. The project started in 2009 and it was not only Gáspár's very first open-source project, but also his first try at improving his development process with BDD.

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Track Lead: Continuous Behavior – BDD in Continuous Delivery

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

This session is about Gáspár's experience with BDD in a Continuous Delivery model. Many teams use Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for automated UI testing. Although UI testing might be an important element of your verification pipeline, it is slow, brittle and costly. But in the era of...

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Software needs discoverers – and this might be you!

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

My daughter always asks me what my job is. Working with computers -- this has been the answer for long time. She's caught a glimpse of a story map on the wall of my room and asked what that was. I had to explain to her that before making a software, we need to understand better what it will...

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Lightning Talks

Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Jason Brocklebank

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Lightning Talk: Property Based BDD Examples

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

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Behavior Driven Web UI Automation with Selenium and Cucumber/SpecFlow

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

BDD is a method that focuses on defining the requirements based on the expected behavior; DDD is a method that uses a ubiquitous language all across the solution; UX helps design user interactions based on user behavior… and Selenium WebDriver (or similar) is a tool that is mostly used to ignore...

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Behaviour Driven Web UI Automation with Selenium and SpecFlow

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

BDD is a method that focuses on defining the requirements based on the expected behavior; DDD is a method that uses a ubiquitous language all across the solution; UX helps design user interactions based on user behaviour… and Selenium WebDriver (or similar) is a tool that is mostly used to ignore...

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Scaffolding a legacy app with BDD scenarios using SpecFlow/Cucumber

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

Please join us as we navigate the mind of Gáspár Nagy. Register your place as we have limited seating.

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Scaffolding a legacy app with BDD scenarios using SpecFlow/Cucumber

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

Want to learn more about different strategies, collaboration and testing patterns that can be followed in such a renovation like situation? Then join this talk Scaffolding a legacy app with BDD scenarios using SpecFlow/Cucumber, by Gáspár Nagy to find out.

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Workshop: A Planning Meeting You’ll Love

Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Matt Wynne

Before you pull a user story into development, it’s crucial to have a conversation to clarify and confirm the acceptance criteria.

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BDD for financial calculations: Excel vs. Given-When-Then, or both?

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

This session describes how to use Excel combined with Gherkin-based BDD tools (Cucumber, SpecFlow, etc.) to fulfil the requirements for calculations based on project experience.

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Speeding up tests with parallel execution using SpecRun

Featuring Gaspar Nagy

BDD tests usually exercise the application with external dependencies. The benefits of end-to-end testing are well known, but these tests tend to have a long execution time. SpecRun aims to speed up the execution of the (SpecFlow) functional tests by parallelizing them. This session summarizes...

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Automating Gherkin Acceptance Criteria with Specflow

Featuring Christian Hassa and Gaspar Nagy

Behavior-Driven Development is a way of building software focusing on application behavior. This is achieved by enabling a better communication between the customers and the development team and by using automated acceptance tests to describe the required functionality.

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Defining Acceptance Criteria in Gherkin

Featuring Christian Hassa and Gaspar Nagy

User stories in the product backlog are just reminders for a discussion. This discussion that clarifies the necessary details takes place shortly before implementation only. But how are these details defined and how can you review after implementation whether they have been fulfilled?

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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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Patterns and Practices of building Gherkin based living documentations

Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Christian Hassa

Implementing your first user story is easy: describe your first Gherkin scenario (Given/When/Then) and implement it outside-in using TDD. But as the system grows, several questions arise that you will need answer...Gaspar and Christian will talk about their experience on several .NET projects...

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Advanced Topics of Behavior Driven Development with SpecFlow examples

Featuring Gaspar Nagy and Jonas Bandi

Come learn about general practices and patterns of BDD and ATDD ‒ through concrete examples realised with SpecFlow. Come discuss opportunities and pitfalls of BDD and common antipatterns and pitfalls based on concrete experiences with BDD.

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Driving an ASP.NET MVC application outside-in with SpecFlow

Featuring Jonas Bandi and Gaspar Nagy

In this tutorial, we'll create an ASP.NET MVC app from scratch with an outside-in approach. Come learn Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) to bridge the gap between requirements and implementation with SpecFlow.

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