Seb Rose on BDD, Cucumber, Cyberdojo, Certification and Testers in Code Reviews

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Seb Rose, a dispassionate developer, and one of the principals of Cucumber Limited about his work at Cucumber, the Cyber-dojo charity, designing a robust certification program and involving testers in code reviews Why listen to this podcast: • Cucumber is more than a testing tool – it is a collaboration tool • There is a lot of confusion around what Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is and isn’t • BDD is made up of three distinct practices: Discovery, Formulation and Automation – Cucumber is only about the Automation practice • Provide concrete examples to communicate business needs using BDD to ensure that business rules are defined unambiguously • Cyber-dojo is a place for people to practice their coding skills on many platforms • Ideas around designing a robust certification scheme The value of having testers involved in code reviews goes far beyond reading the code