51: Matt Wynne - Building the Right Thing with BDD

In this episode, Adam talks to Matt Wynne about Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• What exactly is BDD?
• Is BDD a technical or non-technical practice?
• How do you get started with BDD?
• How do you keep the number of system tests low to keep your test suite fast?
• What's your strategy for dealing with external services in acceptance tests?
• What are the advantages of using Cucumber even as a solo developer working on a side project?

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Links:

• Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video course
• Matt's Blog
• Matt's notes from Dan North's Awesome Acceptance Testing talk
• Cucumber School
• User Story Mapping
• Impact Mapping
• Introducing Example Mapping
• The Rails Testing Pyramid
• The Testing Iceberg
• The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design talk by Michael Feathers
• The Training Wheels Came Off, Aslak Hellesøy on removing the built-in step definitions in Cucumber-Rails
• Cucumber Blog
• Cucumber on GitHub
• The Cucumber Book

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.