[rspec-users] Slides from my talk on Cucumber + Celerity + RSpec tonight

[Ashley Moran]

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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