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