Cucumber Podcast

What happens when you transition to agile practices at a big organisation? How can you do agile software development at scale? This month Sinead Shackley (https://twitter.com/smshackley) and Dave Anderson (https://twitter.com/davidand393) from Liberty IT and Paul Shepheard (https://twitter.com/HamletArable) from Deutsche Bank share their stories.

** CukenSpace Charlotte - December 12th-13th 2018 **

A special BDD conference for testers, developers and BAs. Keynote from Ellen Gottesdiener on creating structured conversations to break down your product backlog. Matt Wynne, Steve Tooke, George Dinwiddie, Marlena Compton and other agile and BDD practitioners will be there.

Book w/ promo-code "podcast" for 30% off your ticket. Learn more on our website -https://cucumber.io/events/2018/12/12/cukenspace-charlotte

This month on the Cucumber Podcast, Sal Freudenberg and Matt Wynne speak to Rebecca Wirfs Brock. Rebecca is probably best known as an author of Designing Object-Oriented Software (1990) and Object Design (2002) and works as an independent software consultant based in Portland.

For the past couple of months, Rebecca has occasionally jumped on the Cucumber Pro Mob (mob programming) to watch the team, observe the team's heuristics, and contribute to the product. The conversation follows that journey and how other teams out there can notice their own heuristics and ultimately deliver higher-quality software.

You can find Rebecca on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rebeccawb

Voici une édition spéciale du podcast Cucumber. En français, s’il vous plaît! Julien Biezemans, co-fondateur de Cucumber Ltd, discute BDD avec Bruno Boucard.

Julien et Bruno seront à Paris pendant deux jours pour une formation sur le BDD les 11 et 12 octobre 2018 - https://cucumber.io/events/bdd-kickstart-paris

This month on the Cucumber podcast, Aslak Hellesøy and Steve Tooke speak to Kenny Baas and Bruno Boucard about the relationship between Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).

While both share many similarities, there isn't a great deal of crossover between the two communities. Our two guests want to change that by demonstrating that both practices and communities have more in common than they may think.

### Show notes

[Kenny's article about DDD<>BDD](http://blog.xebia.com/combining-domain-driven-design-and-behaviour-driven-development/)

[Bruno on Twitter](https://twitter.com/brunoboucard)/ [Kenny on Twitter](https://twitter.com/kenny_baas)

[DDD conference in Denver, Sept 2018](http://exploreddd.com/)

[Event Storming introduction](http://ziobrando.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-event-storming.html)

[Example Mapping introduction](https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/12/08/example-mapping-introduction)

[Kanddinsky Conference, Berlin, October 2018](https://kandddinsky.de/)

[Cucumber on Twitter](https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd)

Hiya! This month on the Cucumber Podcast we speak to Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson. They are probably best known for their association with the Agile Manifesto - Ron, one of the authors, Chet the first signatory. They've both done some other stuff too...

This is a wide-ranging conversation hosted by Matt Wynne with fellow Cucumber people Sal Freudenberg, Steve Tooke and Aslak Hellesøy.

Show notes

Cucumber Clinic - Let us review your scenarios! - https://clinic.cucumber.io/

Transcript of this conversation - https://cucumber.io/blog/2018/06/06/ron-and-chet-podcast

Chet on Twitter - https://twitter.com/chethendrickson

Ron on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RonJeffries

Cucumber on Twitter - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd

This month on the Cucumber Podcast we speak to Beth Skurrie, who is the maintainer of the open-source project, Pact. Pact falls into the category of contract testing and with the advent of microservices and continuous delivery, it's getting more and more important.

Seb Rose takes the hosting duties with extra questions from Steve Tooke.

Shownotes:

Learn more about Pact - https://docs.pact.io/

Integration Tests are a Scam by JB Rainsberger - http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/integrated-tests-are-a-scam

What is Pact good for? What is Pact not good for? https://docs.pact.io/documentation/what_is_pact_good_for.html

Previous podcast about Approval Testing w/ Llewellyn Falco

https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/01/26/approval-testing

This month on the Cucumber Podcast, we speak about The Screenplay Pattern.

As John Ferguson describes it on his [site](http://serenity-bdd.info/docs/articles/screenplay-tutorial.html), "the Screenplay Pattern is a powerful and elegant approach to designing and implementing automated tests, providing a number of improvements over more traditional approaches such as the Page Objects model."

The conversation covers why you should consider following the Screenplay Pattern and its potential drawbacks.

The conversation closes with our guests providing a single tip for folks looking to try out the Screenplay Pattern on their own.

Joining your host Aslak Hellesøy are John Smart, Jan Molak, Angie Jones, Nat Pryce, Matt Wynne and Steve Tooke.

### Shownotes:

CukenFest London, April 19th-20th - Join us for our annual conference focused on helping you build stronger ties between business and IT. Keynotes from Dan North and Ulrika Malmgren. More details on our [event page](http://cukenfest.cucumber.io/)

[Page Objects Refactored](https://ideas.riverglide.com/page-objects-refactored-12ec3541990)

[Screenplay tutorial](http://serenity-bdd.info/docs/articles/screenplay-tutorial.html)

The history of testers and developers working together is a bumpy road. Throughout the evolution of software development, testers have struggled to be treated as equals and developers have lacked the understanding of why they should care. Yet some teams do it well - both roles have a good experience and the resulting software benefits from the different perspectives.

In this podcast, Franziska and Maaret speak to Matt Wynne to share some tips on how to improve this in your team.

Show notes:

CukenFest London, April 19th-20th. Join us for our annual conference focused on building stronger ties between business and IT. Keynotes from Dan North and Ulrika Malmgren. More details on our event page - http://cukenfest.cucumber.io/.

Book recommendation - Thanks for the feedback, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen. Buy on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well/dp/0670014664

Mob programming podcast w/ Woody Zuill. Listen - https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/04/19/mob-programming

On the podcast this month we discuss sexual harassment in tech. It's a subject that's been broadly covered in the news and we wanted to explore the experiences of women in tech and practical things we can all do to combat sexual harassment in our own communities.

Your host Matt Wynne is joined by Sal Freudenberg, Arti Mathanda, Liz Keogh and Melissa Perri.

Share your thoughts on Twitter - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd

A bit of festive magic for you.

We have invited Marcin Floyran and Sebastian Lambla back onto the podcast to discuss VeST (Vertical Slice Technologies). They were last on the podcast about two years ago to talk about Agile Anarchy and we asked them back to talk about VeST. So here it is. Aslak is asking the questions.

This is a great listen for those who are interested in building customer-centric, high-quality software products.

Topics discussed during the podcast include:

- The core concepts of VeST and its benefits.

- Why focusing on the customer can be a great first-step for teams steeped in legacy code.

- Debunking hexagonal architecture and ports and adapters.

- The role of traditional testers and mob testing.

Shownotes

- Sebastian's blog - https://serialseb.com/serials/vest-redux/

- Agile Anarchy podcast - https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/02/16/agile-anarchy

- Kind of Green - Aslak's post about how we are building Cucumber Pro -https://sdjournal.org/bdd-like-jazz/

Shout out the pod on Twitter @cucumberbdd - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd