Cucumber Podcast

On the podcast this month, Matt Wynne speaks to Angie Jones.

We first heard about Angie through her posts about BDD, Test Automation and Cucumber on her website. Her blog is a treat, filled with lots of practical advice for modern software teams.

Angie now works for Twitter as an Automation Engineer and is a frequent conference speaker.

Here's what they discuss on the podcast:

Angie's background and her current role at Twitter.

Why developers shouldn't lead your automation efforts.

How testers can win over the team with BDD and Cucumber.

The future of testers in a world of automation.

Shownotes:

Angie's blog: https://angiejones.tech/

On the podcast this month Seb Rose speaks to Henry Coles, the creator of Mutation Testing tool PIT.

Here's how they describe Mutation Testing on the PIT Test website - "Mutation testing is conceptually quite simple. Faults (or mutations) are automatically seeded into your code, then your tests are run. If your tests fail then the mutation is killed, if your tests pass then the mutation lived. The quality of your tests can be gauged from the percentage of mutations killed."

*They discuss:*

- What is mutation testing?

- How widely adopted is this approach in the enterprise?

- When and where should you use mutation testing?

- What can developers learn from academics?

- What are the similarities and differences between Mutation Testing and Property-Based Testing

**Shownotes**

PIT Test - http://pitest.org/

Quick theories (Property-Based Testing tool) - https://github.com/ncredinburgh/QuickTheories

Work at NCR - NCR careers - http://ncredinburgh.com/jobs/

On the podcast this month, Seb Rose and Steve Tooke speak to Allan Kelly, a well-known agile consultant and long-time friend of the pod.

**On the podcast the three discuss:***

- Why agile often just means agile software development.

- What companies mean when they say "digital transformation".

- Advice for ambitious teams who want to spread agile across the organisation.

- Allan's personal story into agile consulting.

- Why he advocates a #noprojects mindset

- Why Seb shares Allan's Dear Customer blog post with all his post-graduate students.

Shownotes:

- Dear Customer - https://leanpub.com/xanpan/c/Trega15

- Agile on the Beach - http://agileonthebeach.com/

- How buildings learn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966

- Allan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/allankellynet

- Allan's blog - https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/

This week on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to Pia Mancini, co-founder of Open-Collective, about crowdfunding and our own efforts to raise money to support the open source community.

Show notes:

Learn more about Open Collective - https://opencollective.com/

Contribute to Cucumber's Open Collective - https://opencollective.com/cucumber

Say hi to Pia on Twitter - https://twitter.com/piamancini

Open Collective is an OSS project. Visit their Github page - https://github.com/opencollective

Share your thoughts in the comments or on Twitter - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd

Why do cars have brakes? So they can go faster.

This week on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to Ben Rady and Josh Chisholm about running fast tests. Everyone knows fast tests are valuable, so why do so many companies abide slow ones?

Show notes:

Ben's post "Testing with Fire" http://www.benrady.com/2016/11/testing-with-fire.html

Josh's OSS tool Finished Promise - https://github.com/featurist/finished-promise

Ben's book "Continuous Testing" - https://pragprog.com/book/rcctr/continuous-testing

CukenFest London is coming to town over June 21st-25th. Three events for the Cucumber, BDD, and Agile communities. Learn more about the events on our website - http://cukenfest.cucumber.io/

This month on the Cucumber podcast, Matt Wynne speaks to Simon Powers the founder of Adventures with Agile about Behaviour-Driven Development in banking.

Simon was approached by the global investment bank BNP Paribas to review several product teams and to find out why the teams could not complete stories at the end of each sprint and why there was so many defects coming into the sprint.

In just 9 months, the defect rate decreased from 34% to 4% and they avoided a very costly rewrite. Listen to this podcast to hear how they did it and the lessons learned along the way.

Read the short case study on the [Adventures with Agile website](https://www.adventureswithagile.com/2015/08/27/a-case-study-for-bdd-in-improving-throughput-and-collaboration/)

Cucumber and Adventures with Agile are teaming up to run BDD Kickstart, London. A two-day public training course for people who want to learn fundamentals of BDD and Cucumber. Aslak Hellesoy - the creator of Cucumber and author of The Cucumber Book - will teach this course. [Learn more][https://cucumber.io/events/bdd-kickstart-london)

This month on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to David MacIver and Nat Pryce about Property-Based Testing.

Shownotes:

Join Nat and Aslak in London for CukenFest. June 21st-25th - https://content.cucumber.io/cukenfest-2017

What is Property Based Testing? - http://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-testing/

Misadventures with Property-Based TDD - http://natpryce.com/articles/000800.html

John Hughes Quickcheck video presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q

Small-step TDD with properties - http://natpryce.com/articles/000807.html

Snodge - https://github.com/npryce/snodge

Gáspár Nagy is the creator of Specflow, the .NET version of Cucumber. Based in Budapest, Gaspar is an independent BDD and Specflow trainer and coach. He is also writing a new book about Specflow in collaboration with Seb Rose.

Joining him on the podcast this month are Aslak Hellesoy, Matt Wynne and Arti Mathanda. They discuss the upcoming book, the role of QA in modern teams and plenty more.

Show notes:

Learn more about Specflow: http://specflow.org/

Mentioned podcast with Emily Webber - https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/08/03/communities-of-practice

Up for Grabs - http://up-for-grabs.net/#/

Specflow public courses in Europe - http://specflow.org/training/

Quality Excites - https://qualityexcites.pl/en/

CukenFest London, June - https://cucumber.io/events/cukenfest-london-2017

Cucumber Electron is a compelling alternative to Selenium.

Cucumber-electron runs cucumber-js in Electron, a framework for building desktop applications in web technologies. By running features this way, your step definitions can require npm modules including server-side libraries and node.js core modules and use a browser DOM to render HTML, all in the same (chromium renderer) process, with no transpile step.

This week on the podcast, we talk to its creator Josh Chisholm about this new project and testing through the GUI.

Josh recently spent some time as a contractor building Cucumber Pro (https://cucumber.io/pro).

Aslak Hellesoy, Julien Biezemans, Steve Tooke and Matt Wynne join the discussion.

Announcing cucumber-electron - https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/01/23/announcing-cucumber-electron

Get started - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-electron

Browser monkey - https://github.com/featurist/browser-monkey

Vinehill, the virtual http adapter - https://github.com/featurist/vinehill

Cucumbers on vine hill, a demo of all the stuff we discussed - https://github.com/joshski/cucumbers-on-vine-hill

Say hi to Josh on Twitter - https://twitter.com/joshski

Josh's company, Featurist - http://www.featurist.co.uk/

Recorded on January 20th 2017.

This month on the Cucumber podcast we speak to Llewellyn Falco. He's best known for two things: approval testing and mob programming. As we've covered mobbing in great detail on the pod lately, we dig into approval testing. A very informative and fun pod.

From the Cucumber team on the podcast are Steve Tooke, Aslak Hellesoy, and Seb Rose.

You say hello to Llewellyn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/LlewellynFalco

Or read more:

http://approvaltests.com/

http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.de/

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