Hi all
Just ran a session known as a “huddle” in GeekUp terms. GeekUp[1] is
a group of monthly events in North West England. The Sheffield one
starts with a huddle every month, which is intended to have more
audience participation than a pure talk. For this one, I got an
unsuspecting audience (of developers, designers, business analysts,
project managers, and itinerant alcoholics stumbling past our end of
the bar) writing user stories and fighting^H^H^H^H^H discussing in a
civilised manner which was most important.
Second half was a tech demo, and they all loved Cucumber. So hats off
to everyone involved in RSpec Stories and to Aslak for its recent re-
incarnation, it had a room full of geeks going “I want that for my PHP
code!”.
Slides are on my blog[2] for anyone that wants a flick through, or to
find out more about what went on.
Ashley
[1] http://geekup.org/
[2]
http://aviewfromafar.net/2008/10/2/geekup-sheffield-vi-from-specification-to-success
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Ashley M.
[email protected] wrote:
Second half was a tech demo, and they all loved Cucumber. So hats off to
everyone involved in RSpec Stories and to Aslak for its recent
re-incarnation, it had a room full of geeks going “I want that for my PHP
code!”.
Slides are on my blog[2] for anyone that wants a flick through, or to find
out more about what went on.
Thanks a lot for sharing Ashley.
This is a really good introduction to BDD. Short enough to be
graspable for people who are new to it - long enough to be really
valuable. I can imagine you had a good time! I really like that you
started off by talking about business value (So that). The two
sentences about acceptance criteria (verifiable by humans and discrete
for machines) really nail down what BDD acceptance criteria are about.
I’m ccing the Celerity crew - they also live here in Oslo.
BTW - if you are developing an open source conference organising tool,
please let me know. I’ve written two that suck (one in Rails, one as a
Radiant extension) and I want something good for the next conference I
organise.
Cheers,
Aslak
On Oct 02, 2008, at 6:07 am, aslak hellesoy wrote:
Thanks a lot for sharing Ashley.
This is a really good introduction to BDD. Short enough to be
graspable for people who are new to it - long enough to be really
valuable. I can imagine you had a good time! I really like that you
started off by talking about business value (So that). The two
sentences about acceptance criteria (verifiable by humans and discrete
for machines) really nail down what BDD acceptance criteria are about.
Hi Aslak
Yeah! It was fun. The interactivity worked better than I expected.
I think it made it sink in too. One thing I’ve learnt about stories
is they are very academic until users see real software that
implements them.
I’m ccing the Celerity crew - they also live here in Oslo.
I haven’t used it extensively but I’m already a big fan of it. One
guy last night said that Cucumber + Celerity has completely renewed
his interest in automated acceptance testing, after giving up on FIT
and Selenium. He says it’s also the excuse he needs to learn Ruby (he
does all C-pound right now), or at least enough to write Cucumber
files. And another guy grabbed the slides off me so he could get
JRuby set up for a new team to use today!
The new killer app (combo) for Ruby? :o)
BTW - if you are developing an open source conference organising tool,
please let me know. I’ve written two that suck (one in Rails, one as a
Radiant extension) and I want something good for the next conference I
organise.
We’re doing it specifically for BarCamp Sheffield 2008 (end of
November) at first, but I’d love to expand it. When’s your next
conference likely to be?
Ashley
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