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Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by A MYSTERY SHOPPER 04/17/2013, 9:54pm PDT
E. L. Koba wrote:

The cuke's that non-devs write are just going to be totally re-written by devs to match their existing step definitions.

Nobody except the devs are ever going to look back at your existing cukes - so really what is the point of writing them.


Ahhh! This is my experience as well.


If your devs do it right you have a good suite of full-stack integration tests. Which is invaluable.


This is the part I personally struggle with. If it were up to me, a developer would write maybe a compile-time test (junits; sorry to be so Java-specific) and the automation person would write ALL the programs and shit used to test it. A dev's role at that point is to get the automation resource unstuck. ("Hey, my sort is bad" / "My test takes forever to run, can you help?" / "I don't understand what you did here, can you explain?") Most developers I've worked with are happy for this arrangement because they don't want to do their jobs AND make a lot of automated tests at the same time. (Some do.) If I were in their position I would say, "What are the goddamned automation engineers here for then anyway?"

But that might be because I feel professionally guilty at mastering a goddamn text game making language instead of something useful.
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Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by Fullofkittens 04/17/2013, 4:37pm PDT NEW
    My experience: none by Entropy Stew 04/17/2013, 9:15pm PDT NEW
        Pretend that "doesn't" wasn't there NT by Entropy Stew 04/17/2013, 9:16pm PDT NEW
    Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by A MYSTERY SHOPPER 04/17/2013, 9:17pm PDT NEW
        This doesn't match my concept of ATDD or how I'm trying to apply it by Fullofkittens 04/18/2013, 4:25pm PDT NEW
    Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by E. L. Koba 04/17/2013, 9:45pm PDT NEW
        Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by A MYSTERY SHOPPER 04/17/2013, 9:54pm PDT NEW
            Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by E. L. Koba 04/18/2013, 1:50pm PDT NEW
            The issue is that we don't have enough automators to go around by Fullofkittens 04/18/2013, 4:32pm PDT NEW
        My knee-jerk reaction: JUSTIFIED by Entropy Stew 04/17/2013, 11:11pm PDT NEW
            Re: My knee-jerk reaction: JUSTIFIED by E. L. Koba 04/18/2013, 1:54pm PDT NEW
                Re: My knee-jerk reaction: JUSTIFIED by Fullofkittens 04/18/2013, 4:35pm PDT NEW
    Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by motherfuckerfoodeater 04/18/2013, 10:03am PDT NEW
        Re: Caltrops, please share your experiences with BDD or ATDD by Fullofkittens 04/18/2013, 5:33pm PDT NEW
 
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