Tag Archives: BDD

Resolving Cucumber step ambiguities

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Andrew

Following the latest campaign against imperative Cucumber stories in favour of declarative stories (see especially Dan North’s great article on domain languages), I’ve been trying to get more naturalistic language into my stories. However, it becomes very easy to run … Continue reading →

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Pong in HTML5 Canvas and YUI3, with tests!

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Andrew

In case you’re one of my clients, you might be wondering why I’ve been slacking off recently. Here’s why: I’ve been teaching myself ‘grown up’ JavaScript under instruction of Douglas Crockford (in book and video form, obviously). Crockford never mentions … Continue reading →

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CruiseControl.rb rake task for running rspec and cucumber with a single test database

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Andrew

I wrote this rake task for running the rspec and cucumber tests for a Rails app whilst ensuring that only one database is used. It took a bit of Googling and lots of trial and error so thought I’d share … Continue reading →

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Optimising specs for ActiveRecord scopes and other database-dependent functionality

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Andrew

After recently switching to a lower-performance laptop for my regular development tasks, I decided to spend a bit of time cleaning up some long-running rspec examples. I found that some misunderstanding of rspec’s features had led me to write highly … Continue reading →

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