In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our workshop leads and speakers about their experiences delivering software and what people will learn attending their session.

This time we sat down with Bruno Boucard and Thomas Pierrain. Bruno and Thomas will run a workshop session on Event Storming and Example Mapping, two techniques which have come to prominence in the last couple of years which help teams build understanding and explore the different routes to delivering value.

Towards the end of the first day of CukenFest London, we allow anyone from the audience to take to the stage to give a short, two-minute talk on a topic they think might interest an audience of BDD enthusiasts. It turns out this is always a lot of fun. In 2018 we had some excellent lightning talks including ones about mob programming, getting into tech without a tech background, and how wool can help you solve tricky software problems. In total we had 9 lightning talks, all of which are now on our YouTube channel.

In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our speakers about progressive software delivery techniques, BDD, and what people should expect to learn after attending their session.

Our guests this time are Jamie Knight & Lion and Mike Southgate (aka, Wookie). Jamie and Wookie will deliver one of our keynote talks at CukenFest focusing on how they built a financial detection tool harnessing the power of BDD and autistic thinking. They have a great story to tell and we're excited for you to hear it.

Software development has transitioned from a waterfall to an Agile approach over the past decade. Since Agile development involves continuous change, testing has become invaluable to prevent these frequent changes from introducing new bugs, or worse, breaking the application in production.

Most developers are familiar with test-driven development, or TDD, but Behavior-Driven Development, or BDD, is often misunderstood. The reality is that both of these approaches have benefits and drawbacks to consider.

In this article, we will look at TDD and BDD, explore the differences, and see how they can work together.

This blog post is the transcript of a conversation between our very own Seb Rose and InfoQ's Shane Hastie. The pair cover how Seb sees three central practices of BDD, his thoughts on including testers in code reviews, but he starts with why he thinks "passion" isn't a trait he looks for in colleagues.

In the build up to our annual Behaviour-Driven Development conference, CukenFest London (April 4th-5th 2019), we've taken some time to chat to a few of our speakers about progressive software delivery techniques, BDD, and what people should expect to learn after attending their session.

This time we sat down with Alex Schladebeck, one of our keynote speakers. Alex is an agile tester consultant and linguist, well known in Agile and Testing circles as an excellent speaker and communicator. It was my colleague Sal Freudenberg who first suggested Alex as a keynote speaker for CukenFest, arguing that Alex cares as deeply about software quality as our audience does. So who better to deliver a keynote on the importance of the whole-team approach to software quality.

In the build up to our annual BDD conference, CukenFest London, we've spoken to a few of our speakers about software development, BDD, and their upcoming session in April.

Our first interview is with Marit van Dijk. Marit is a core contributer to the Cucumber OSS and a software and test engineer at bol.com. Marit will speak at CukenFest London on "Collaborating on Open Source".

Hundreds of teams are benefitting from BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development). This 20-minute talk will familiarise you with what BDD is and isn’t so you can decide if it’s right for your team. Ryan will stick around to take questions about BDD, Cucumber, and transformative agile practices.

Ryan Marsh is an agile coach, trainer, and hacker who works with enterprise software development teams to help them be their very best. Ryan believes enterprise software development can be fun, rewarding, and move at high speed no matter the industry. Ryan has helped technology teams supercharge their development at some of America’s most well-known companies. Ryan is a self-taught hacker with a varied background in technology. He is also US Army veteran. Ryan leverages this unique perspective to help teams reach their full potential.

This month on the podcast we speak to Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about testing in DevOps. The conversation covers the whole team approach and why testers are as important as ever. Asking the questions from Cucumber are Matt Wynne, Sallyann Freudenberg, and Steve Tooke.

This month on the Cucumber Podcast we speak to Stefan Hofer about Domain Storytelling. Stefan describes Domain Storytelling as "a workshop format which helps people have a conversation about their domain; the idea is that domain experts tell stories that explain how people and software systems work together." Although well known and celebrated in the Domain Driven Design community, Domain Storytelling is starting to be discovered by software teams wanting to find innovative ways to build shared understanding. Asking the questions from Cucumber are Matt Wynne and Sallyann Freudenberg.