In this tutorial, we will walk through creating a basic JUnit test class in Eclipse just to make sure that our environment is set up properly. We will use Test Driven Development (AKA Test First Development) to ensure that we are writing just enough code to pass our test, and not writing our test to …
Acceptance Criteria, Test Automation and Gherkin What do Acceptance Criteria, Test Automation and a Cucumber have in common? Well for the uninitiated in may seem that these 3 things have nothing in common however if you are an “Agilist” or Test Automation specialist than you are probably very familiar with the similarities. Let’s start with …
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In order to automate acceptance tests with Cucumber in Eclipse we must first load the Cucumber Plugin in Eclipse using the Eclipse Marketplace. Once the Cucumber Plugin is installed in Eclipse, we can create a Maven Project and add Feature, Step Definition and CucumberRunner classes to integrate our Gherkin Acceptance Criteria statements with our Junit …
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In traditional Waterfall projects we had to be careful and beware of the dreaded Scope Creep… That evil demon that creeps into your back log as overachieving team members agree to do undocumented change requests that come in after the project planning and budget have already been done. Historically to avoid scope creep organizations have …
If you are using the Eclipse IDE and want to get started with Behavior Driven Development then you will most likely want to install the Cucumber Eclipse Plugin. With the plugin installed and a couple of supporting files created you can run and review automated acceptance tests. If you don’t already have Eclipse installed it …
Staging Files As we generate new solution artifacts they need to be added to the repository, integrated with work by other team members and tested to ensure that no defects were introduced by our changes. Until we add the files to the repository they are considered untracked files even though they are present in a …
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There are a few ways to create a Git Repository but before we talk about How let’s talk about Why. Why do we need a Git Repository or any Repository for that matter? And What is a Git Repository anyway? In its simplest for a Git Repository is simply a folder that contains files that …
•GE Case Study •AWS Sydney Australia https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ge-oil-gas-digital-transformation-in-the-cloud/ •GE Oil and Gas Presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFGFaJZFtuk •GE, AWS adoption http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/ism209-acceleration-of-aws-enterprise-adoption-in-ge??Microsoft Developer Division Case Study •Interview with Sam Guckenheimer on Microsoft’s Journey to Cloud Cadence http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile2014-guckenheimer •ALM Devops features https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/alm-devops-vs.aspx •Microsoft Continuous Delivery Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caM0DojhV7w •Rakuten and Microsoft talk Devops in Real World http://www.slideshare.net/TsuyoshiUshio/rakuten-and-microsoft-talk-devops-in-real-world •Detailed retrospectivehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/11/25/a-rough-patch.aspx? • Knight Capital …
Before you can begin building that groundbreaking new app you have been dreaming about you first need to get your development environment setup. The following steps represent the path of least resistance to get a development environment setup and begin development of your new killer app. The tools mentioned will also allow your new software …
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Pay it Forward You can pay now or pay later but trust me you’re gonna pay! I’m talking about Technical Debt… Technical Debt like any other Debt has Interest, so you can pay now or pay later but if you pay later it will be much more expensive. See this post on the Increasing cost …