Seb Rose
Consultant, coach, trainer, analyst and developer for over 30 years.
Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from Architecture to Support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a partner in Cucumber Limited, who help teams adopt and refine their agile practices, with a particular focus on collaboration and automated testing.
Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of “BDD Books 1: Discovery” (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).
He blogs at cucumber.io and tweets as @sebrose
Talks I've Given
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Track Lead: Every Process Needs Thoughtful Participants
Featuring Seb Rose
Books, conference talks, the internet are all awash with processes that claim to help you solve problems. They document how other people have overcome challenges in a way that makes their approaches accessible to others.
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Workshop: Shameless
Featuring Seb Rose
Open source software is everywhere. The Cucumber family of tools is a prime example of an open source success, but even here the diversity of contributors is fairly narrow. At a recent meetup of Cucumber contributors there were representatives from 11 nations, but the ethnic, gender and age...
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Less is more [Workshop]
Featuring Seb Rose
This session will introduce some key techniques that help decompose large problems.
Decomposing problems is a key skill that all software developers need, but we’re often not very good at it. Whether it’s stories that take longer than an iteration, or features that can’t be delivered in the...
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#NoEstimates does not mean "no estimates
Featuring Seb Rose
The #NoEstimates hashtag has been generating a lot of heat in software development circles for the past couple of years, but what does it really mean? It’s time to find out.
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Let me tell you a story
Featuring Seb Rose
What’s the relationship between features and stories? What is a ‘user’ story anyway? Where do acceptance criteria fit in? These questions (and more) are often answered badly - when they aren't ignored completely.
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Whose truth is it anyway.
Featuring Matt Wynne and Seb Rose
Matt and Seb will talk about trust between participants in the game we call software development - why it's important, how hard it is to build and how easy it is to lose. Without trust how can the team agree on the truth of what we're setting out to build?
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Don't you trust me? (a technical approach to building trust and consensus)
Featuring Seb Rose
Seb Rose discusses an approach that he has been experimenting with using Cucumber's tagged hooks to control the amount of application stack that a scenario exercises.
cucumber bdd cukeup