The Screenplay Pattern: A Revolutionary Way to Structure Your Acceptance Tests

Featuring Matt Wynne

If you’ve maintained an acceptance test suite of any significant size you’ll know how important it is to keep that code organised. If you’re hitting a GUI, you’ve probably tried the Page Objects pattern. You may even be pretty happy with it. But how well does your code really adapt to change?...

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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.

7 reasons why BDD is not for you

Featuring Matt Wynne

Ignorance Mapping [Workshop]

Featuring Matt Wynne

Embrace your ignorance and learn how to have really effective three amigos conversations. This simple technique will super-charge your development team.

The Cucumber That (Nearly) Ate Itself

Featuring Matt Wynne

With a team of collaborators who are some of the world’s greatest experts at BDD, you’d like to think that Cucumber’s codebase would be a shining example of what happens why you get everything right. If only!

Stories, Rules and Examples - a hands-on workshop - Part Two

Featuring Matt Wynne

It’s easy to become infatuated with examples when doing BDD / Specification by Example. Examples are a vital tool, but they're not enough. In this workshop we’ll explore the boundary between rules and examples, and learn a concrete technique for mapping out your understanding of a user story...

Stories, Rules and Examples - a hands-on workshop - Part One

Featuring Matt Wynne

It’s easy to become infatuated with examples when doing BDD / Specification by Example. Examples are a vital tool, but they're not enough. In this workshop we’ll explore the boundary between rules and examples, and learn a concrete technique for mapping out your understanding of a user story...

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Advanced Essence Distillation Workshop

Featuring George Dinwiddie and Matt Wynne

This workshop gives you hands-on practice at removing extraneous details and focusing on the essential ones. You’ll produce typical scenarios and iteratively improve them with feedback from the instructors and your peers.

Beyond BDD

Featuring Matt Wynne

BDD might just be software development nirvana. But what lies beyond? What happens when a team get really, really good at BDD? Can you get so good you don't need it anymore? Let's find out.

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Cucumber JS with Node, Angular and Friends

Featuring Matt Wynne and Julien Biezemans

Matt and Julien will show you how to use Cucumber-JS to drive both client-side and back-end code. You'll build a working full-stack JavaScript application, and along the way we'll discuss how to structure your tests to keep them fast, reliable and valuable.

The Post BDD Team

Featuring Matt Wynne

BDD might be software development nirvana. But what lies beyond? What happens when a team get really, really good at BDD? Can you get so good you don't need it anymore? Let's find out.

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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?

Why your step definitions should be one-liners and other pro tips

Featuring Matt Wynne

Many teams are now carrying around the baggage of a few years' automation with Cucumber. As a travelling consultant, Matt gets to see the good, the bad and the ugly sides of all this experience. He's lived to tell the tale, and in this talk he'll share those tales with you.

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Hands-on introduction to Cucumber.js

Featuring Julien Biezemans and Matt Wynne

Julien Biezemans, author of Cucumber.js and Matt Wynne, a long-standing Cucumber core team member will facilitate a short hands-on workshop during which you'll get the opportunity to understand the basic concepts, conventions and syntax to get started with Cucumber in a pure JavaScript...

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Hexagonal Rails

Featuring Matt Wynne and Steve Tooke

Matt and Steve give LRUG a version of their Hexagonal Rails talk (which they’ll also be giving at SRC and Goruco later this year)

BDD As It's Meant To Be Done

Featuring Matt Wynne

This session will be a kata-style tutorial. Working from a single Cucumber scenario, Matt will drive out a domain model, then like a BDD magician, he'll slip in a user interface around the domain model without touching the tests.

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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Coding Dojo

Featuring Ivan Sanchez and Matt Wynne

The Dojo starts with the definition of a problem to be worked on. It'll be something relatively simple, but with enough scope for plenty of interesting choices to be made about the design. We'll have one laptop connected to a projector and two developers will pair on it to iterate towards...

Debugging Pair Programming

Featuring Matt Wynne

I think Pair Programming is vital to the success of a programming team, but every time I join a new team I seem to find I’m in a minority of people who feel that way, let alone have any experience of actually doing it.