Category Archives: bdd

Agile 2009: BDD Clinic, Feedback Workshop and Programming with the Stars

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Liz

At Agile 2009, Pat Maddox of RSpec will be running a BDD Clinic with me. Between us we have experience with Java, .NET and Ruby code, and we’re willing to look at and learn from anything else. If you bring … Continue reading →

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Free BDD talk, Monday 17th at Skills Matter

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Liz

Dan North and I will be heading up a free introductory BDD talk at Skills Matter’s headquarters in Clerkenwell near Farringdon, London, next Monday. Drinks will follow. I like working with Skills Matter because they genuinely believe in, and invest … Continue reading →

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The ant and the tree

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Liz

When I first found out about BDD, way back in 2004, I remember TDD being rather like an ant looking for a flower on a tree, and telling all the other ants back at the nest on the ground about … Continue reading →

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We don’t design using mocks

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Liz

I’ve found myself repeating this a few times lately, so maybe it will help some people out there. In BDD, we don’t design using mocks. We design by thinking about context, responsibility, collaboration and delegation, then we use mocks to … Continue reading →

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Pixie Driven Development

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Liz

While I’m coding, I usually have a bunch of very helpful pixies hanging around my desk. (They’re Dan’s pixies really, since he thought of them first; I’m just borrowing them.) The pixies are bored, and just waiting for a job … Continue reading →

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Pulling Power and Kanban experiences

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Liz

My first ever article, “Pulling Power: a new Software Lifespan” is up on InfoQ. BDD, Feature Injection, Lean and Kanban playing nice together! Big thanks to Dan North, Chris Matts, David Anderson, Amr Elssamadisy and the amalgam of developers who … Continue reading →

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Why you should write tests last

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Liz

Prompted by Szczepan’s post. I have written tests after code when the code is already there, but I / others don’t know what it does or how to use it, and we need to I wrote a spike which turned … Continue reading →

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Given / When / Then granularity

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Liz

When we first wrote JBehave 1.0 we quickly recognised that there was power in the scenarios; in the conversations that they could help to drive, and in the reusability of the steps. I loved the ease with which you could … Continue reading →

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Tests should make things easy to change

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Liz

People often ask me to review their unit tests, or answer questions on how to write different aspects of tests. I frequently find myself making the same suggestions over and over again. So, if you were thinking of asking one … Continue reading →

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You’ve heard of BDD, DDD and TDD

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Liz

Damien Guard introduces the other *DDs.. I particularly like “Psychic Driven Development” and “Golf Driven Design”. Thanks, Damien.

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