Approval Testing - Test Automation as Behaviour Change Management

Featuring Geoff Bache

Reasoning about system behaviour is a key element of BDD. Tests that have this focus tend to be easier to understand and maintain and can also function as executable specifications. But system behaviour changes over time, and it can be difficult to maintain tests with many assertions written...

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Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code Workshop on Agile Software Craftsmanship

Led by Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organisation to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way!

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Subcutaneous Testing Mobile with Paul Stringer!

Featuring Paul Stringer

Healthy agile software practice is everywhere. Paul Stringer joins us for this months BDDx Bytes to tell us how to best utilise UI tests on mobile! Don't miss it.

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The secrets to getting your Mobile Apps right early, and then keeping them that way

Featuring Paul Stringer

Acceptance Testing and BDD are essential components of a healthy software development process; unfortunately on Mobile this typically results in the creation of slow, brittle and highly complex UI automation based tests. These can leave development teams and businesses left wondering, are BDD...

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The Future of Software

Featuring Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)

Uncle Bob is back in town for the first time in 2016. Join us in this limited seated event, register now!

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Conway's Law & Reverse Conway's Law - How to avoid being caught by it and how to turn it to your advantage

Featuring Allan Kelly

Conway's Law states that system designs and structure mirrors organizational design and structure. For legacy systems reverse Conway's Law leads to organizations which mirror the system structure.

The world is full of people who neither know Conway's Law or understand the...

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Fun and Profit within the Evil Empire: Scala in Finance

Featuring Chris Agmen-Smith, Franck Rasolo and Paul Allton

You don’t take a job in finance to explore the boundaries of type theory. But perhaps you should. Brush the boilerplate and bureaucracy away, and banking offers plenty of fun challenges.

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Panel: Portfolio delivery: from here to there.

Featuring Dan North, Chris Matts, Tony Grout, Marina Oliveira and Ram Rao

Join experts from the Portfolio Management track of the Agile Testing and BDD eXchange for a panel discussion.

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Build the backlog from MVPs?

Featuring Chris Matts

How do you build the team's backlogs for each of the MVPs in your Organisational Backlog? Some items require analysis, like new tax laws. Some require A-B testing, like improving user experience. Others are obvious and don't need much explanation, and some leave everyone confused. Come...

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Capacity planning in an imperfect world

Featuring Marina Oliveira and Ram Rao

How do you make sure your organization have the capacity to deliver the plan? This session will show you how to plan in an imperfect world through a super interactive game. The game will take you through all the stages of the planning process, with you playing a role of the process stakeholders.

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An experience report on portfolio planning at Scale

Featuring Tony Grout

How do you improve an organisation's Agility? You start by identifying the Constraints. Once the constraints are known, they will drive all the changes you need to make. They will reveal the issues you need to address, and the order you need to address them.

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Introducing Delivery Mapping

Featuring Dan North and Chris Matts

Just over ten years ago Dan North and Chris Matts came together to create the Given-When-Then format that we are here to celebrate today. They had come together to solve a problem they perceived in the communication between developers and non-developers.

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The Power of Examples - Part Two

Featuring Jenny Martin and Pete Buckney

Examples are powerful. We all use examples every day to help others understand what we mean. Our most valuable team members are able to express complex technical concepts to business people and also translate business ideas into comprehensive technical solutions. Those people tend to naturally...

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Agile Testing of Mobile Apps

Featuring Karl Krukow

Quality on mobile is a challenge! Developing mobile apps requires dealing with multiple platforms, OS versions, form-factors and resolutions, varying hardware capabilities and network conditions. At the same time users have extremely high expectations for the mobile experience and will promptly...

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Buried treasure, what’s hiding in your Scenarios?

Featuring Alan Parkinson

We’ve had the conversation with the business, elicited examples and documented them in

Gherkin. In reality conversations with the business don’t take place using Gherkin, so they

have to be translated into the ‘Given When Then’ format. Unwittingly details can be lost and

ambiguities introduced...

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Modelling by Example

Featuring Konstantin Kudryashov

We all know Gherkin is an amazing tool to help us talk with business more effectively. It is a great way to extract business requirements from the Product Owner in the way that there's no inherited ambiguity. But what if it is much more? What if Gherkin could also help us to model our...

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Improving the Value of SBE and BDD artefacts

Featuring David Evans

How do we get the most value out of our specification and test writing effort? How do we create artefacts that serve the whole team, as specifications, acceptance tests and documentation? To do Specification by Example or Behaviour Driven Development well, we need to connect with the needs and...

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Appium: Mobile Automation Made Awesome

Featuring Jonathan Lipps

Automated testing is the key to rapid development of high-quality apps, but mobile has lagged behind the web in this area. In this talk we'll give a philosophical and technical introduction to Appium, an open-source, cross-platform, mobile automation framework you can use to write automated...

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To those whom much is given, much is expected...

Featuring Dan Haywood

OK, so here's my 'given' for this talk: you're developing some sort of enterprise app, from the outside-in, using a bit of BDD. And you're about to start a new user story. So, what's in 'given' for your story? In some ways getting that nailed is the hardest part of...

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Capturing Requirements or Solving Problems?

Featuring Jeff Patton

One of the derogatory terms sometimes applied to software professionals is “order-taker.” Yet, we work in a profession that’s rich with language and practice that focuses us on doing just that. In the end what matters most isn’t that we created what people asked for on time and in budget, but...

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