Coding the right thing

Coding the Right Thing

AgendaQueuing Theory(x)DDGherkin, SpecFlow and WatiN

About Me

• Developer Evangelist @ Microsoft

• Web Developer and Architect

• Based in Austin, TX• Husband and Father

ON RELIGIOUS DEBATES…

"If we don't bother to verbalize our intuition, we ourselves will do the opposite of what we believe in." - Eli Goldratt

The Goal…

Create Value :: deliver something desired; optimize

for quality

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT TDD WHILE WAITING IN LINE…

QUEUING THEORY

TRADITIONAL TDDDEMO

SO WHAT’S MY PROBLEM?

"The deeper I got into TDD, the more I felt that my own journey had been less of a wax-on, wax-off process of gradual mastery than a series of blind alleys." - Dan North

SHIFTING FOCUS“Working software that matters” – Dan North

FOCUS ON ACTUAL BEHAVIORS

“SHOULD”

BEHAVIOR-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

DEMO

SO WHAT’S MY PROBLEM?

QUEUING THEORY

A STORY, MY TEST; THE BROWSER, MY API…

Gherkin, SpecFlow and WatiN

GHERKINFeature Syntax

SPECFLOWAutomated ATDD

WATINDrive the Browser

SPECIFYING FEATURES WITH SPECFLOW

DEMO

TDD, BDD, ATDD, FDD, SDD…

THE GOAL OF (X)DD…

MINIMIZE REWORK…

Question Your Thinking“Good people with good process will outperform good people with no process every time.” – Grady Booch

Resources• SpecFlow.org• WatiN.sourceforge.net• Gherkin :: http://bit.ly/cONNiL

• Slides and Demos :: http://bit.ly/bddPresentation

Resources (Cont’d)

• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce :: http://amzn.to/atddbook

• How TDD Works (and More!) :: http://bit.ly/jbrainsTDD

COMING IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF MSDN MAGAZINE…

Questions?

Email: brsatrom@microsoft.com Twitter: @BrandonSatromBlog: www.userinexperience.com