The Future of Cucumber on .NET
Beginning just over two years ago, I worked with some great developers to create Cuke4Nuke as a way to bring Cucumber to .NET. Shortly after…
Author: Richard Lawrence
Longtime co-owner of Agile For All, Richard left in October 2020 to co-found Humanizing Work.
He trains and coaches people to collaborate more effectively with other people to solve complex, meaningful problems. He draws on a diverse background in software development, engineering, anthropology, and political science. Richard is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer, as well as a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. His book, Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber, was published by Addison-Wesley in 2019 (for more information, visit bddwithcucumber.com).
Why Longer Sprints Probably Won’t Help
As a coach, I’m frequently told, “Our sprint length is too short. We want to change it from X to Y weeks.” The time box—the…
Cucumber Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Regular expressions are a big part of what makes Cucumber tests both expressive in English and DRY on the automation side. To make the most…
Getting Started with Ruby, Cucumber, and Capybara on Windows
The Ruby version of Cucumber isn’t just for Rails developers. If you have a .NET or Java web or service app, Ruby can be a…
Another Story Splitting Pattern (Maybe)
User stories are typically written using a template like, “As a <role>, I want to <action> so that <value>.” My other story splitting patterns focus…
Cuke4Nuke Needs Your Help
Almost 2 years ago, at the 2009 AA-FTT conference, I started Cuke4Nuke to bring Cucumber to the .NET world. Since then, thanks to some fantastic…
Public ATDD with Cucumber Course, March 7-8, Denver (Postponed)
Update: This course has been postponed until June or July. If you’re interested in attending, let me know and I’ll notify you when registration opens…
Want Productivity? Focus on Predictability Instead
Focus your team on predictability, and productivity will come. Focus on productivity, and you’ll get neither productivity nor predictability.
Just Enough Regular Expressions for Cucumber
Jon Archer wrote last week about how Cucumber makes knowledge of regular expressions important. He’s right: Regular expressions are the key to Cucumber’s flexibility. Well-crafted…
Paul Rayner Joins The Agile Cooperative
I’m excited to announce that Paul Rayner’s company, Virtual Genius, has joined The Agile Cooperative. Paul is the founder and president of the Denver chapter…
Debugging Cuke4Nuke Step Definitions
At a client today, we were doing some tricky automation with WatiN (against Telerik controls) in Cuke4Nuke. We wanted to dig into what WatiN was…
How to Remove Duplication in Cucumber Tests Using Scenario Outlines
Gojko Adzic has a new blog post demonstrating the new table parameter support in Cuke4Nuke. Table parameters are an important part of Cucumber. They’re great…
The Latest on Cuke4Nuke
This morning, I released version 0.3.0 of Cuke4Nuke. With this release, Cuke4Nuke supports almost everything you can do with Cucumber in Ruby or Java, making…
Growing DONE—How to Make the Definition of Done Work for Your Team
Effective agile teams get things done. They build software day after day that’s not just “code complete” but really shippable. And when their product owner…
Screencast: Testing Web Applications in .NET with Cuke4Nuke and WatiN
Yesterday, I released Cuke4Nuke 0.2.2, which added WatiN compatibility and an example of how to use the two tools together. Here’s a short screencast in…
Crazy Thanksgiving Offer: Let’s Make Your Work Great
Work shouldn’t suck. Whatever your position, you can do something to make your work better. I’m so thankful for the work I get to do,…
WatiN Patterns #3: Don’t Over-specify
After a long hiatus, I’m resuming the WatiN Patterns series. Pattern #1 covered why and how your tests should clean up after themselves. Pattern #2…
Patterns for Splitting User Stories
Update, October 2020: Richard’s latest story splitting resources are available at Humanizing Work. Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable,…
Cuke4Nuke: Cucumber for .NET Teams
Update: If you’ve just landed here, you could get the impression from this post that Cuke4Nuke doesn’t exist yet. It does. Check out this screencast…
Resources from our Agile 2009 Presentation
For those who attended my Agile 2009 presentation with Bob Hartman, “The 7 Deadly Sins of Almost Being Agile,” here are the slides and handouts.…