While attending
Euruko several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see
@aslak_hellesoy present the
Cucumber Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework. BDD is a part of
Agile software development focused on bringing the domain expert into the specification process through the use of natural language. This is done through the users and developers creating a story that is directly parsed by the code for tests.
Aslak's
presentation was well done, giving some compelling reasons to adhere to BDD principals, showing that using Cucumber made it a joy. Thing is, Cucumber is already a part of testing for the
Adhearsion framework and some specific projects we are working on. What was new to me, was a lightning talk given at the end of the day on
Cucumber-Nagios.
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