Cucumber Podcast
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA monthly podcast for people who want to find new ways to deliver high-quality software products. We talk to practitioners, authors, and interesting people who are trying to make a positive difference.
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Episodes
How to avoid the common pitfalls when learning BDD
August 03, 2020 10:15 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast Matt Wynne and Seb Rose speak to Chris Glover, a lead test engineer who has been working in a team which has struggled with some of the common pitfalls of learning BDD. Matt invited him onto the podcast to share that story. Shownotes: Serenity - http://www.thucydides.info/#/ Screenplay Pattern (Matt's blog series) - https://cucumber.io/blog/bdd/understanding-screenplay-(part-1)/
Software Estimation without Guessing with George Dinwiddie
June 19, 2020 10:38 - 44 minutes - 80.8 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast, Seb Rose and Matt Wynne speak to George Dinwiddie, an old friend of the pod and author of a new book "Software Estimation without Guessing". Buy George's book "Software Estimation without Guessing" - https://pragprog.com/titles/gdestimate/ Also mentioned "Thanks for the feedback" by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313485/thanks-for-the-feedback-by-douglas-stone-and-sheila-heen/ Follow George on Twitter - https://tw...
The Agile Fluency Model with Diana Larsen
April 29, 2020 14:46 - 52 minutes - 95.3 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast we welcome Diana Larsen a world-renown author, speaker and co-founder of The Agile Fluency Model. Show notes: - CukenFest Remote - June 3rd-4th -https://cukenfest.cucumber.io/ - Agile Fluency - https://www.agilefluency.org/ - Upcoming events - https://www.agilefluency.org/workshops.php - Virtual Open North America - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-open-north-america-tickets-101659959676 - Books - https://leanpub.com/u/dianalarsenauthor
The Financial Risks Of Open Source Software with Aslak Hellesøy
March 19, 2020 15:49 - 36 minutes - 67.5 MBThis month we dig into the financial risks of open-source software. Chairing the conversation is Seb Rose who is joined by his colleague Dermot Canniffee. Answering the questions is Aslak Hellesøy who created Cucumber some 12 years ago. Cucumber's success has led to many of the world's most valuable company relying on its software for critical parts of their codebase. So what are the financial risks for companies who use OSS tooling every day? And who pays when an OSS tool is no longer look...
A BDD story with Andreas Markussen and Sheeraz Iqbal
January 23, 2020 10:53 - 35 minutes - 65.7 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast Matt Wynne speaks with Andreas Markussen and Sheeraz Iqbal from Nuuday a Danish company which has recently been on a journey of adopting Behaviour-Driven Development. This is a conversation about their story so far and the challenges they've faced.
BDD with Cucumber - Paul Rayner and Richard Lawrence
November 29, 2019 13:41 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MBThis month, Matt Wynne and Seb Rose sat down with Richard Lawrence and Paul Rayner to talk about their new book "Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber". The book incorporates their many combined years of experience teaching BDD to agile teams. Matt and Seb explore what readers can expect from the book as well as digging into their own experiences teaching and coaching teams in adopting BDD and agile practices. Shownotes Pick up a copy of Richard and Paul's "Behavior-Driven Developm...
Agile Testing Condensed with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin
October 24, 2019 09:42 - 40 minutes - 74.7 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast we have another conversation with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin. They have released their latest book, Agile Testing Condensed (https://leanpub.com/agiletesting-condensed). In this conversation, Matt Wynne and Seb Rose ask the pair about the book and testing best practices in modern agile teams.
Alex Schladebeck on Testing
May 24, 2019 09:34 - 44 minutes - 82 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast we sit down with Alex Schladebeck who identifies as a Tester. Sal Freudenberg and Steve Tooke - co-founders of Cucumber - ask her about her recent keynote appearance at CukenFest London as well as her thoughts on the role of modern testers on agile teams. Alex can be found on Twitter https://twitter.com/alex_schl
Testing in DevOps with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin
January 17, 2019 15:25 - 36 minutes - 67.7 MBThis 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 is Matt Wynne, Sallyann Freudenberg, and Steve Tooke. Shownotes: Janet & Lisa's website - https://agiletester.ca/ Agile Testing - https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Testing-Practical-Guide-Testers/dp/0321534468/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547738499&sr=1-3&keywords=agile+testi...
Domain Storytelling
December 12, 2018 10:33 - 43 minutes - 79.3 MBThis 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 sha...
Agility in a BIG Organisation
November 08, 2018 14:39 - 44 minutes - 81.8 MBWhat happens when you transition to agile practices at a big organisation? How can you do agile software development at scale? This month Sinead Shackley (https://twitter.com/smshackley) and Dave Anderson (https://twitter.com/davidand393) from Liberty IT and Paul Shepheard (https://twitter.com/HamletArable) from Deutsche Bank share their stories. ** CukenSpace Charlotte - December 12th-13th 2018 ** A special BDD conference for testers, developers and BAs. Keynote from Ellen Gottesdiener on ...
Observing heuristics
October 09, 2018 14:58 - 45 minutes - 82.7 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast, Sal Freudenberg and Matt Wynne speak to Rebecca Wirfs Brock. Rebecca is probably best known as an author of Designing Object-Oriented Software (1990) and Object Design (2002) and works as an independent software consultant based in Portland. For the past couple of months, Rebecca has occasionally jumped on the Cucumber Pro Mob (mob programming) to watch the team, observe the team's heuristics, and contribute to the product. The conversation follows that jo...
Cucumber Podcast - édition française!
September 07, 2018 10:02 - 16 minutes - 30.7 MBVoici une édition spéciale du podcast Cucumber. En français, s’il vous plaît! Julien Biezemans, co-fondateur de Cucumber Ltd, discute BDD avec Bruno Boucard. Julien et Bruno seront à Paris pendant deux jours pour une formation sur le BDD les 11 et 12 octobre 2018 - https://cucumber.io/events/bdd-kickstart-paris
BDD and DDD
July 26, 2018 14:12 - 43 minutes - 79.4 MBThis month on the Cucumber podcast, Aslak Hellesøy and Steve Tooke speak to Kenny Baas and Bruno Boucard about the relationship between Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). While both share many similarities, there isn't a great deal of crossover between the two communities. Our two guests want to change that by demonstrating that both practices and communities have more in common than they may think. ### Show notes [Kenny's article about DDD<>BDD](http://bl...
Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson
June 06, 2018 13:22 - 52 minutes - 99.6 MBHiya! This month on the Cucumber Podcast we speak to Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson. They are probably best known for their association with the Agile Manifesto - Ron, one of the authors, Chet the first signatory. They've both done some other stuff too... This is a wide-ranging conversation hosted by Matt Wynne with fellow Cucumber people Sal Freudenberg, Steve Tooke and Aslak Hellesøy. Show notes Cucumber Clinic - Let us review your scenarios! - https://clinic.cucumber.io/ Transcript ...
Contract Testing with Pact
May 04, 2018 13:22 - 41 minutes - 76.3 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast we speak to Beth Skurrie, who is the maintainer of the open-source project, Pact. Pact falls into the category of contract testing and with the advent of microservices and continuous delivery, it's getting more and more important. Seb Rose takes the hosting duties with extra questions from Steve Tooke. Shownotes: Learn more about Pact - https://docs.pact.io/ Integration Tests are a Scam by JB Rainsberger - http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/inte...
The Screenplay Pattern
March 23, 2018 09:40 - 54 minutes - 99.2 MBThis month on the Cucumber Podcast, we speak about The Screenplay Pattern. As John Ferguson describes it on his [site](http://serenity-bdd.info/docs/articles/screenplay-tutorial.html), "the Screenplay Pattern is a powerful and elegant approach to designing and implementing automated tests, providing a number of improvements over more traditional approaches such as the Page Objects model." The conversation covers why you should consider following the Screenplay Pattern and its potential dra...
Collaboration Between Testers and Devs
March 01, 2018 16:02 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBThe history of testers and developers working together is a bumpy road. Throughout the evolution of software development, testers have struggled to be treated as equals and developers have lacked the understanding of why they should care. Yet some teams do it well - both roles have a good experience and the resulting software benefits from the different perspectives. In this podcast, Franziska and Maaret speak to Matt Wynne to share some tips on how to improve this in your team. Show notes...
Sexual Harassment in Tech
January 25, 2018 11:50 - 46 minutes - 85.2 MBOn the podcast this month we discuss sexual harassment in tech. It's a subject that's been broadly covered in the news and we wanted to explore the experiences of women in tech and practical things we can all do to combat sexual harassment in our own communities. Your host Matt Wynne is joined by Sal Freudenberg, Arti Mathanda, Liz Keogh and Melissa Perri. Share your thoughts on Twitter - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd
VeST - Vertical Slice Technologies
December 20, 2017 11:53 - 55 minutes - 102 MBA bit of festive magic for you. We have invited Marcin Floyran and Sebastian Lambla back onto the podcast to discuss VeST (Vertical Slice Technologies). They were last on the podcast about two years ago to talk about Agile Anarchy and we asked them back to talk about VeST. So here it is. Aslak is asking the questions. This is a great listen for those who are interested in building customer-centric, high-quality software products. Topics discussed during the podcast include: - The core ...
Modern Day Test Automation
November 23, 2017 11:40 - 51 minutes - 94.1 MBOn the podcast this month, Matt Wynne speaks to Angie Jones. We first heard about Angie through her posts about BDD, Test Automation and Cucumber on her website. Her blog is a treat, filled with lots of practical advice for modern software teams. Angie now works for Twitter as an Automation Engineer and is a frequent conference speaker. Here's what they discuss on the podcast: Angie's background and her current role at Twitter. Why developers shouldn't lead your automation efforts. Ho...
Mutation Testing
October 26, 2017 11:00 - 43 minutes - 80.2 MBOn the podcast this month Seb Rose speaks to Henry Coles, the creator of Mutation Testing tool PIT. Here's how they describe Mutation Testing on the PIT Test website - "Mutation testing is conceptually quite simple. Faults (or mutations) are automatically seeded into your code, then your tests are run. If your tests fail then the mutation is killed, if your tests pass then the mutation lived. The quality of your tests can be gauged from the percentage of mutations killed." *They discuss:* ...
Agile Adoption
September 28, 2017 08:05 - 44 minutes - 82 MBOn the podcast this month, Seb Rose and Steve Tooke speak to Allan Kelly, a well-known agile consultant and long-time friend of the pod. **On the podcast the three discuss:*** - Why agile often just means agile software development. - What companies mean when they say "digital transformation". - Advice for ambitious teams who want to spread agile across the organisation. - Allan's personal story into agile consulting. - Why he advocates a #noprojects mindset - Why Seb shares ...
Funding Open Source
August 30, 2017 09:40 - 39 minutes - 72.5 MBThis week on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to Pia Mancini, co-founder of Open-Collective, about crowdfunding and our own efforts to raise money to support the open source community. Show notes: Learn more about Open Collective - https://opencollective.com/ Contribute to Cucumber's Open Collective - https://opencollective.com/cucumber Say hi to Pia on Twitter - https://twitter.com/piamancini Open Collective is an OSS project. Visit their Github page - https://github.com/openc...
Fast Tests
June 29, 2017 16:35 - 47 minutes - 86.2 MBWhy do cars have brakes? So they can go faster. This week on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to Ben Rady and Josh Chisholm about running fast tests. Everyone knows fast tests are valuable, so why do so many companies abide slow ones? Show notes: Ben's post "Testing with Fire" http://www.benrady.com/2016/11/testing-with-fire.html Josh's OSS tool Finished Promise - https://github.com/featurist/finished-promise Ben's book "Continuous Testing" - https://pragprog.com/book/rcctr/con...
BDD in Banking
May 25, 2017 09:25 - 35 minutes - 64.6 MBCukenFest London is coming to town over June 21st-25th. Three events for the Cucumber, BDD, and Agile communities. Learn more about the events on our website - http://cukenfest.cucumber.io/ This month on the Cucumber podcast, Matt Wynne speaks to Simon Powers the founder of Adventures with Agile about Behaviour-Driven Development in banking. Simon was approached by the global investment bank BNP Paribas to review several product teams and to find out why the teams could not complete storie...
Property-Based Testing
April 27, 2017 10:50 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MBThis month on the Cucumber podcast Aslak Hellesøy speaks to David MacIver and Nat Pryce about Property-Based Testing. Shownotes: Join Nat and Aslak in London for CukenFest. June 21st-25th - https://content.cucumber.io/cukenfest-2017 What is Property Based Testing? - http://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-testing/ Misadventures with Property-Based TDD - http://natpryce.com/articles/000800.html John Hughes Quickcheck video presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi...
Specflow with Gáspár
March 23, 2017 16:06 - 50 minutes - 91.8 MBGáspár Nagy is the creator of Specflow, the .NET version of Cucumber. Based in Budapest, Gaspar is an independent BDD and Specflow trainer and coach. He is also writing a new book about Specflow in collaboration with Seb Rose. Joining him on the podcast this month are Aslak Hellesoy, Matt Wynne and Arti Mathanda. They discuss the upcoming book, the role of QA in modern teams and plenty more. Show notes: Learn more about Specflow: http://specflow.org/ Mentioned podcast with Emily Webber -...
Cucumber Electron
February 23, 2017 10:46 - 45 minutes - 82.8 MBCucumber Electron is a compelling alternative to Selenium. Cucumber-electron runs cucumber-js in Electron, a framework for building desktop applications in web technologies. By running features this way, your step definitions can require npm modules including server-side libraries and node.js core modules and use a browser DOM to render HTML, all in the same (chromium renderer) process, with no transpile step. This week on the podcast, we talk to its creator Josh Chisholm about this new pro...
Approval Testing
January 26, 2017 11:53 - 1 hour - 127 MBThis month on the Cucumber podcast we speak to Llewellyn Falco. He's best known for two things: approval testing and mob programming. As we've covered mobbing in great detail on the pod lately, we dig into approval testing. A very informative and fun pod. From the Cucumber team on the podcast are Steve Tooke, Aslak Hellesoy, and Seb Rose. You say hello to Llewellyn on Twitter - https://twitter.com/LlewellynFalco Or read more: http://approvaltests.com/ http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.de/ ...
Neurodiversity and Inclusive Collaboration
December 13, 2016 15:14 - 47 minutes - 87.7 MBThis week on the Cucumber Podcast, Matt Wynne speaks to Sal Freudenberg about inclusive collaboration and neurodiversity. Show notes: More about the Neurodiversity campaign - http://leanagile.scot/workshops/inclusive-collaboration/ The inclusion collaboration experiments book - https://leanpub.com/theinclusivecollaborationexperiments http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/sal-freudenberg-and-katherine-kirk/the-inclusive-collaboration-experiments/paperback/product-22927832.html ...
Self-organising at scale
November 03, 2016 15:18 - 38 minutes - 70.4 MBThis week we’re speaking to Loomio co-founder and Enspiral member, Richard Bartlett. In 2011, Richard found himself at the heart of the Occupy movement in Wellington, New Zealand. For the first couple of months, the camp was growing 20% per day, and no one was driving it. Although Occupy ultimately collapsed, Richard, along with some others from the movement, continued to explore how organisations and groups can self-organise at scale. We cover Richard’s own background and feed these ideas b...
How XP Can Improve the Experiences of Female Software Developers
September 21, 2016 14:14 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBCan XP improve the experiences of women software developers? Clare Sudbery, a developer with 17 years experience in the industry, certainly thinks so. Clare has been involved in traditional waterfall projects and most recently XP. Earlier this year, she wrote an academic paper (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-33515-5_24) about her own experiences in an XP team and how it impacted her. Clare feels many of the difficulties associated with being a minority have subsided sin...
How Communities of Practice can support learning in your company
August 03, 2016 14:29 - 33 minutes - 60.8 MBToday we’re going to be talking about communities of practice and how they can support learning in your company . Communities of Practice are “formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor” [1] In the organisations we work with, we encourage those with similar skill sets - testers for example - to get together with others in similar roles, who work in different departments. This wider pool of individuals can then support one another in ...
Building diverse communities
June 27, 2016 14:31 - 28 minutes - 51.9 MBOn the podcast this week we discuss why diversity is important and what practical things we can do to increase it, specifically at our events. We also dive into our own experiences of being at conferences where diversity has either been very evident or completely absent, and give our reactions to that. For five years now we've been running a tech conference, born out of the BDD and Cucumber community. We call it CukeUp! and run it annually in London and Sydney. The event attracts a mix of d...
Cucumber Anti-Patterns
May 09, 2016 13:33 - 41 minutes - 75.5 MBCucumber’s popularity might give the impression it’s an easy tool to master. It ain’t! Many experienced Cucumber users have the bumps and bruises to prove it. Matt, Steve, and Aslak from the core Cucumber team discuss writing good gherkin and avoiding common pitfalls. We’ll unpick why it’s important to write your gherkin before you write the code, consider if you should ever delete scenarios, and give tips on incorporating your team’s different perspectives into maintainable, predictable cu...
Mob Programming
April 19, 2016 09:01 - 56 minutes - 104 MB“All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and on the same computer.” That’s how Woody Zuill - who coined the term Mob Programming - describes it. He is our esteemed guest on the podcast, and we spend some time digging into his own experiences mobbing. This is a fun episode for folks looking for novel ways to improve the certainty of their software. Remember to like, share and subscribe on soundcloud or iTunes. It helps us reach more people! ...
Illustrating Scenarios
March 23, 2016 09:54 - 39 minutes - 71.7 MBDrawing is a quick and graceful way to visualise your scenarios. When discussing complexity in our system, techniques which bring a voice to each stakeholder and break down user stories should be cherished. We first heard about these ideas through Ulrika Malmgren at CukeUp! London last year. We chatted with Ulrika Malmgren about drawing and other techniques to bring teams closer together to build certain, coherent software. Ulrika also tells us about her upcoming CukeUp! London talk, "Why ...
John Smart - BDD And Serenity
March 09, 2016 13:58 - 39 minutes - 72.1 MBLong before Behaviour-Driven Development was a term, John Smart was a proponent of bringing business and tech teams together. It was working for a French insurance company in the 90s, with complex (and peculiar) business rules, where the journey started: “This was a car insurance company so you had to tell them where you lived, what sort of car you had, what colour it was, what sort of dog you had...everything. The customer/product owner had these excel spreadsheets that he was using by him...
Agile Anarchy
February 16, 2016 14:47 - 36 minutes - 67.3 MBThe wide adoption of agile has produced practices and tools that help teams communicate and deliver software effectively. But many activities we assume we *must* use don't add the value we hoped. What happens when you throw out the rulebook and start at zero - will we see a marked improvement or just a Hobbesian mess? We've invited Marcin Floryan and Seb Lambla on the pod to talk about their recent anarchic experiments at Spotify. What did they throw away and what did they keep. SPOILER - ...
What makes a great product owner?
January 26, 2016 13:23 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBIn this episode we speak to Megan Folsom, a renegade product owner with sage advice for aspiring POs. We explore the conflicts and contradictions of the role, how the PO can bridge the communication gap between business and tech, and why courage trumps all. All this and more in this episode of the Cucumber podcast. On the podcast this week: Megan Folsom - twitter.com/mfolsom Steve Tooke - twitter.com/tooky Matt Wynne - twitter.com/mattwynne Aslak Hellesøy - twitter.com/aslak_hellesoy
Can agile actually work in big organisations?
November 02, 2015 00:00 - 43 minutes - 79.6 MBMany large organisations find implementing agile processes tricky. After all, doesn't agile rely on self-organisation, devolved decision making, and flexibility? How can you keep hold of a sense of togetherness when you bring in process management and steering committees? In this podcast, we debate "scaling agile" and how large organisations can make it work. We're fortunate to have two experienced large-scale agile coaches in Em Campbell-Pretty and Terry Yin. They're joined by Cucumber reg...