BDD

BDD: It's about value

Melissa — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:11:00 +0000

I was drawn to Behavior Driven Development the moment I was pointed toward Behat not just for the automation but because it systematized and gave me a vocabulary for some things I already did pretty well. It let me teach some of those skills instead of just using them. At DrupalCon Amsterdam, Behat and Mink architect Konstantin Kudryashov gave a whole new dimension to that. His presentation, Doing Behaviour-Driven Development with Behat, was a straightforward, well-sequenced, and insightful explanation about why automation is so not the point, even though he began by writing automation tools. Many Drupal shops have found themselves battered in the bizarre project management triangle, where clients push for more and more features within fixed budget often within wildly unrealistic timelines. Based on research conducted by Inviqa, where he works as the BDD Practice Manager, as well as a now-classic study by the Standish group showing that for all that pressure for more and more features, nearly 50% are never used, he makes the following claim: Your clients don’t care about your scope. Your clients don’t care about their budget. They care about their business. And the reason they try to get so many features on a...

Melissa Tue, 12/02/2014 - 16:11

Watching remote tests run

Melissa — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:22:00 +0000

It can be incredibly helpful when you're troubleshooting Behat tests to watch the tests execute. It's fairly straightforward to install Selenium locally and watch @javascript tests execute in your browser of choice, a bit more challenging remotely. Here's how I set up to do that on a remote Ubuntu 14.04 server.

Melissa Wed, 10/29/2014 - 16:22

Not enough entropy

Melissa — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:43:00 +0000

I was writing documentation for using VNC to watch Behat tests being executed with the selenium2 driver on a remote server, when I ran into a strange behavior. I'd set up Behat 3 on my desktop and was successfully running Selenium Server 2.42.2 with Firefox 31. After following the same setup process I'd used locally on a clean Digital Ocean VM, the Behat tests wouldn't run.

Melissa Fri, 09/12/2014 - 13:43