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…
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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…
My Orlando Scrum Gathering Presentation
I’m making my Orlando Scrum Gathering presentation “Doing Scrum Isn’t the Same as LIVING Scrum” available as a PDF. You don’t have to fill out…
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…
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.…
How to Give a Great Sprint Demo
Exciting. Entertaining. Do these words describe your sprint demo meetings? Or are boring and unfocused more accurate? I can’t believe how many times I’ve come…
Continuous Deployment
I’ve written before about the amazing financial impact of releasing more often. And I know from personal experience the positive impact that frequent releases have…
WatiN Patterns #2: One Assertion and a Name to Match
One way to keep your WatiN tests maintainable is to keep them small and focused. WatiN Pattern #2, then, is a way to do just…
7 Tips for a More Effective Daily Scrum
The main purpose of the Daily Scrum is for team members to make and follow-up on commitments to one another that work towards the team’s…
WatiN Patterns #1: No Browser Left Behind
In my previous posts on WatiN, I lamented the shortage of online documentation and resolved to do something about it by documenting the patterns I’ve…