Workshop run at SPA2011.

1. Creating
Cucumbers
collaboration language
discussion value
customers acceptance
Elise Joseph
Huard Wilk

2. Cucumber Feature
Feature: Be awesome Not
Narrative executed
Example of
Scenario: title
behaviour
which rocks
Given <some context>
And <yet more context>
When <some action>
Steps
And <more actions>
Then <some outcome>
And <more outcomes>

3. Cucumber Feature
Feature: Be awesome Not
Narrative executed
Example of
Scenario: title
behaviour
which rocks
Given <some context>
And <yet more context>
When <some action>
Steps
And <more actions>
Then <some outcome>
And <more outcomes>

4. Plaintext
Ruby Plaintext
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Ruby
Ruby

5. Plaintext
Step Given we like cukes
Ruby Plaintext
Plaintext
Ruby
Ruby

6. Plaintext
Step Given we like cukes
Ruby Plaintext
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Step Given /^we like (.*)$/i do |fruit|
definition fruit.should == 'cukes'
end
Ruby
Ruby

7. Plaintext
Step Given we like cukes
regexp match
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Step Given /^we like (.*)$/i do |fruit|
definition fruit.should == 'cukes'
end
Ruby
Ruby

8. Cucumber
Style?

9. Global regular-expressions
Unmaintainable Flexibility
large step-definition files
Problems
Complex regular-expressions
Coverage vs. Speed tradeoffs
are hard to read

10. Workshop:
“The writing’s
on the wall”
5mins per
example

11. Gherkin writing
workshop
20mins

12. Go - Weiqi - Baduk

15. Feature
The Rules of Go
In order to prevent invalid moves
As a GoVsGO website member
I want the rules of Go enforced.

16. Go Rules
Capture
After playing his stone a player removes from the board any stones of his
opponent's colour that have no liberties.
Suicide
A player cannot place a stone that would result in the capture of their own
stones
Ko
One may not play in such a way as to recreate the board position following one's
previous move
Ending
The game ends when both players have passed consecutively

17. How tasty is your
Cucumber?
yum

18. Does not dictate Not Exhaustive, key examples
integration testing (Maths book)
Learnings
Allow features
Why?
to breathe

19. The Art of Cucumber
September 27th
Skillsmatters
http://theartofcucumber.eventbrite.com

20. Thanks
Its been
emotional
Joseph Wilk Elise Huard
http://blog.josephwilk.net http://jabberwocky.eu
@josephwilk @elise_huard