Presentation: "Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD"

Time: Friday 09:30 - 10:30

Location: Abbey Room

Abstract:

Are you writing code that never gets used? Are you struggling to make the code fit your requirements?

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is a fresh breathe of air in the agile community, and its primary focus is to deliver software that matters. -For the end users. BDD builds upon several agile tools and practices like Acceptance-Test Driven Planning, Example-Driven Devlopment, FIT, User Stories and TDD, and bring them together in a consistent whole.

This presentation will give an introduction to the principles and practices of BDD and demonstrate how you can make your plain text User Stories executable with RSpec's Story Framework. The framework itself is written in Ruby, but it can run against production code written in any programming language.

Chief Scientist Aslak Hellesøy, BEKK Consulting

Chief Scientist Aslak  Hellesøy

I'm the Chief Scientist of BEKK Consulting in Norway. Before that I worked for ThoughtWorks.

I am one of the main developers of RSpec and I founded the Portland Maine Ruby User Group.