Behavior-Driven Development in the Real World
Published August 27th, 2010 Under Agile, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Behavior-Driven Development is more than a technique for creating and organizing unit tests. It is also a wonderful way to communicate with customers and users about the software being created. This video demonstrates some techniques and tools you can use to start delivering software with BDD. : Using Behavior-Driven Development frameworks, this session explores ways to create software starting with solid Agile requirements, moving all the way through automated testing. We use .NET in C# and Visual Studio ALM, although none of these exact tools are required to accomplish the goals we set forth.
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Driving an ASP.NET MVC Application Outside-in with SpecFlow
Published August 9th, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
You will learn the basics of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) as well as how to use these concepts to bridge the gap between requirements and implementation ? on .NET platform with SpecFlow. SpecFlow is an open source project inspired by Cucumber aiming at bringing pragmatic BDD to .NET.
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Learning how to use the Extract Interface Technique
Published February 22nd, 2010 Under Agile, Coding | Leave a Comment
In this episode we are going to take a look at another refactoring technique, the Extract Interface technique. This technique allows you to extract an interface from a class in order to break your concrete dependencies. By doing this you can provide yourself with better testing support as well as a better layer of abstractions.
http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/163
Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing
Published February 18th, 2010 Under Agile, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Cucumber is a tool that can execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. The language that Cucumber understands is called Gherkin. While Cucumber can be thought of as a “testing” tool, the intent of the tool is to support BDD. This means that the “tests” (plain text feature descriptions with scenarios) are typically written before anything else and verified by business analysts, domain experts, etc. non technical stakeholders. The production code is then written outside-in, to make the stories pass. Cucumber itself is written in Ruby, but it can be used to “test” code written in Ruby or other languages including but not limited to Java, C# and Python. Cucumber only requires minimal use of Ruby programming and Ruby is easy, so don’t be afraid even if the code you’re developing in is not Ruby. Gojko will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices for writing and maintaining Cucumber scenarios.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/using-cucumber-for-bdd-and-agile-acceptance-testing
Scrum in the Enterprise and Process Customization with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Published February 16th, 2010 Under Agile | Leave a Comment
Scrum for Team System v3 significantly evolves the leading Scrum process template by leveraging the capabilities of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server (TFS 2010) to enhance the support for Agile best practices. Hear how a large customer extended its process model, supports its enterprise scale Scrum projects and Acceptance Driven Development. Additionally, learn how the template takes advantage of the new hierarchical work item capabilities, integrates with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and supports the new deployment topologies for TFS 2010.
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