We just had some customers report a bug. Not good. We didn’t get an exception email. All the tests passed. We couldn’t see anything untoward in the log files. But it was there. We could reproduce it, both in staging and in production. Not good at all.
But the weirdest thing was we couldn’t [...]

Writing estimates up-front is a really tricky part of client work.
From the customer’s point of view it’s pretty essential. You need to know how much you are spending before the work begins so you don’t get stung.
From the developer’s point of view it’s pretty difficult to do because [...]

One of the issues when using Selenium or Watir to power your full-stack acceptance testing (apart from the time it takes for the test suite to run), is that stuff happens within your browser, fails and then Cucumber happily moves on to the next test before you get a chance to look at what went [...]

I had the pleasure of speaking to Luke Redpath the other day.
I started off by thanking him for his Demeter’s Revenge plugin, which is one of the first things I install on a new project. He said he didn’t use it much any more, as he doesn’t do mocking, except during the design [...]

I think Cucumber is fast becoming indispensable for my testing. The point of it is that you can write documentation that your client understands and then prove that the application does what it says. When coupled with WATIR you can show that it really works in an actual browser – you can even [...]

I’ve written up a new post at the Brightbox blog detailing how we are using RSpec and Cucumber to build acceptance tests for the next generation Brightbox systems.