
About this episode
In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, we welcome Aslak Hellesøy, Cucumber Founder, Cucumber Open Source Lead at SmartBear. We walk about TDD and BDD, how to adopt automated testing, what different kinds of tests there are, and what the future holds for Cucumber.
What we talked about, in more detail:
- Introduction
- The differences between TDD and BDD
- How developer communities evolve
- What is Cucumber?
- How companies started adopting Cucumber
- TDD: patterns and anti-patterns
- How to adopt test automation
- The hexagonal architecture of BDD
- Why do we need different kinds of tests?
- The future of Cucumber
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