Cucumber Self Help Group

Cucumber?

Answers!

Patterns

•Brainstorming•Organising•Reviewing

Plan

Goals• Learn about pattern writing• Learn from peoples approaches• The beginning of some patterns

•Beautify without a name•Side effects of applying pattern•Context

Good Patterns

•Do I believe anyone will understand, remember and take action? •Does the pattern ask us to make or do anything? •Does the pattern solve a natural problem? •Does the pattern speak?

Good Patterns

Ambitious

Brainstorming

ExamplesOrganise features

by stakeholders

Cucumber features are output of

conversation

Happy, Bad path, not exhaustive

Imperative vs Declarative

Managing state

Non technical people writing

Coupling to UIPairing with QA

DRY vs ReadabilityOrganisation

Where are Cukes born?

Regular expression hell!

Balancing Unit vs Acceptance

Linking with sketches

Maintenance

Consistent language

Organising

Writing

ReviewingWow we made it this far!

Thanks!