I am utterly dismayed by the number of so-called Agile teams I meet who are still, after all this time, building software backwards. What do I mean by that? Let’s defer to the great W. Edwards Deming as he ridiculed the approach of 1970s American manufacturing to quality: Let’s make toast the American way! I’ll […]
Category Archives: BDD
The problem with solutions
First date. You’re out for dinner and the meal has gone well. Good food, great conversation. The waiter brings the bill, and you ask to pay with your credit card: May I submit my billing info to your merchant account via your payment gateway? Your date looks at you askance: nobody talks like that. Do […]
TDD vs BDD
I regularly find myself explaining to people the difference between TDD (Test-Driven Development) and BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development). There still seems to be a lot of confusion over this, so I wanted to write this up for reference. Late last year I was interviewed for a virtual panel on InfoQ along with Dan, Gojko, and Liz. […]
Is Cucumber just a scam?
David Heinemeier Hansson recently wrote on his blog: Don’t use Cucumber unless you live in the magic kingdom of non-programmers-writing-tests (and send me a bottle of fairy dust if you’re there!) Well, good news readers! The magic kingdom is real! I’ve been there! Look, I even have a bottle of fairy dust. I keep it […]
Interview on QCon: BDD, Cucumber and Hexagonal Architectures
I was interviewed recently by QCon’s Peter Bell about various subjects dear to my heart: BDD, Cucumber, Relish and hexagonal architectures. Click here to watch the video
Public BDD Training (London, October)
So far all of my BDD training has been done in-house as private courses for companies. That’s about to change. On October 8th – 11th Chris Parsons and I will be running four one-day training workshops in London focussed on BDD and specification by example. These are the same courses we’ve been successfully running in-house […]
Matt vs NYC
New York is one of my favourite cities in the world. I’m extremely fortunate to be able to spend a whole week there next week. I’ll be mostly hanging out at QCon: I’ll be speaking at QCon on Monday afternoon about the use and abuse of other people’s Cucumbers. I’m running a hands-on BDD workshop […]
A vision for Cucumber 2.0
At last month’s CukeUp conference, I held a panel discussion between Aslak Hellesoy, Julien Biezemans, Oriol Gual and Jonas Nicklas. I chose these panelists because each of them has written a variation on the original Ruby Cucumber, and I wanted to try to pull these ideas together into a vision for Cucumber 2.0. This post […]
Interviewed by RubySource
Last week I had a great chat with Pat Shaughnessy about The Cucumber Book which has been published as an interview on RubySource. Pat really managed to get to the heart of my opinions about how to use Cucumber effectively, so if you’re too busy to read the book, this will give you a good summary […]
Free BDD Coaching
In this blog post, I will reveal a secret to you. A secret that can get you access to free, hands-on BDD coaching from some of the world’s leading experts like Aslak Hellsøy, Mike Sassak, Greg Hnatiuk, Joseph Wilk and even me, Matt Wynne. Yes, that’s right: absolutely FREE. Would you like to know how? […]