Training day topics:
• Controlling Legacy code with Approval Tests
• Secure Development Lifecycle Applied
• Gemma Cameron - Hands-on: Bringing User Stories to Life
• Using TDD to get Better Results from LLMs/AI
• Practising TDD with Cyber-dojo
• Extreme Refactoring
• Value Stream Mapping
What an amazing training day lineup at this years SoCraTes UK open space conference socratesuk.org
• Emily Bache
• Lisi Hocke
• Gemma Cameron
• Clare Sudbery
• Jon Jagger
• Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce
• Tim Ottinger
Want to improve your testing process? You should check out "Effective BDD" by Nagy and @sebrose.bsky.social from @manning.com. It is about 2/3rds written and already has loads of great stuff in it. I've used BDD with my clients and still found useful tips and pointers throughout.
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Thanks, @trudeau.dev
This is the first podcast I have been on with canned applause and a musical introduction. Skip the first 3 minutes if, like me, you find that a bit disconcerting 🫣
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It soon settles down into a discussion of BDD and the patterns that Gáspár Nagy and I are cataloguing in our book.
Distilled from chapter 1 of our Manning Publications Co. book, Effective Behavior Driven Development is this article in the current version of the ACCU's Overload magazine.
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"Fifteen years of BDD learning condensed into two pages of practices, benefits, and challenges."
So, I've had 45 follows here in the past 5 days. Not exactly viral, but way more than I'm used to.
Why did you click follow? What are you folks interested in? What, if anything, would you like me to post about?
#curious
I love it when a semi-colon comes in useful. A comma could work here too IMO.
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<pedantry>Two full stops = two sentences</pedantry> :)
Gáspár Nagy and I had a short, fun conversation with @lisacrispin.bsky.social and @janetgregoryca.bsky.social of The Testing Fellowship.
And they recorded it :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOYv...
#BDD
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I'll be one of three presenters at the Scottish Testing Group (STG) meet up in Edinburgh on 27th November from 1pm.
Tickets are free!
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Thanks, Ted!
SIX new chapters (6 to 11) have been added to the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) release of our “Effective Behavior-Driven Development" book. They cover Formulation, the practice of turning concrete examples into business-readable specs
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#BDD #Cucumber #Specflow #Reqnroll
We've scheduled a fireside chat on BDD Automation Patterns with @sebrose.bsky.social & Gáspár Nagy. They'll share insights gained while co-authoring "Effective BDD" and exploring pattern authoring.
25 November, 17:00 CET.
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I really enjoyed my conversation with @yveshanoulle.bsky.social in episode 197 of his podcast Who Is Agile.
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The paper copy won't be ready until next spring... this is the early access release. When hardcopy is available I'm pretty sure it will be stocked by the online book sellers - and it should be orderable by your local bookshop.
Our 40+ automation patterns have been crowd-sourced from the #BDD community and are presented in a language agnostic fashion. Examples in the main text of the book will use #Reqnroll, but we document variations for other ports of #Cucumber in the appendices (and in the example code on the website).
MEAP cover for Effective Behavior-Driven Development from Manning
Gáspár Nagy and I are very happy to announce that our new book, Effective Behavior-Driven Development, is now available from Manning: hubs.la/Q03L7kXM0
This book includes updated content previously self-published in The BDD Books Series along with an all new section, BDD Automation Patterns.
I'm looking forward to this retro on UML in Edinburgh next week. Free entry; drinks and pizza.
Register at edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2025/...
It's strange how bits of UML are still used widely, but that you never really hear it mentioned.
Pragmatic Programmer flash sale:
• When: Sept 18, 9am CT – Sept 20, 9am CT
• Discount: 45% off (PP excluded)
• Promo code: flashsale
• Link: pragprog.com
#pragprog
@pragprog
Lean Agile Scotland in September? @markdalgarno.bsky.social
@aiannucci.bsky.social @helenlewis.bsky.social Strong Recommend: Sylvia Townsend Warner. Most popular is Lolly Willowes, but I enjoyed The Corner That Held Them even more.
Another author who never wrote the same book twice.
@dianaofportland.bsky.social are you coming to Scotland at all, Diana?
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