I think every developer wants to write fewer bugs – but for all their wanting, I have still seen many, many bugs in my career. Even though the developers work carefully and do their best to prevent bugs, we still deliver too many bugs into Production. If Conscientious Hard Work Doesn’t Prevent Bugs, Then How …
Many companies use metrics to measure the performance of the Sales Team, the Developers, the QA Team, etc. For QA the metrics frequently include: Many people believe that these two numbers are in opposition to each other – in order to have fewer bugs escape into Production, we must catch more bugs in QA. If …
Traditional test automation arrives one release behind the new features – after the manual QA team has spent at least two weeks testing the new features, and long after the developers have moved on to other things. This is too late to deliver real value; at a minimum the automation should be available as soon …
Data Science and Big Data are hot topics, and rightly so – companies can save huge sums, or dramatically increase sales, by analyzing the data that they already collect. Specification by Example is a great partner in this effort; using SBE correctly enables Data Scientists, Product Owners, and Developers to communicate clearly about Big Data …
Love it or loath it, Python is the language of choice for most Data Scientists – so if the work is done in Python and you are writing the requirements in Gherkin, what tool should you use to automate testing? There is no official version of Cucumber for Python, so the options are Pytest-BDD, Behave, …
You should never, ever Google ‘BDD Tutorial’ or ‘Gherkin Tutorial’. Why? Once when I was teaching a BDD class I was walking around listening to the students working on an exercise, and noticed that one of the students had his phone out, and had some Gherkin on it. I looked more closely, and thought “Why …
A number of case studies have shown that a typical developer spends 30% to 40% of their time fixing bugs. Specification by Example/BDD is designed to prevent those bugs and give you back all of that time. If an average developer earns $150,000 annually in salary and benefits, 30% of their time is $50,000 – …
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