Lunch and Learn on Cucumber by Leon Gersing - [Sept 22nd @ Noon] ...

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Robert Stevenson

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Sep 14, 2009, 2:45:42 PM9/14/09
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[FYI: Mike Doel is looking to do a talk on Cucumber in the next month or so, but here's another opportunity to learn more about Cucumber.  Be sure to email the Quick Solutions contact below to RSVP!   -Rob]

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Come to our
High Level Architecture of Cucumber Lunch and Learn!
Brought to you by Quick Solutions, Inc. and EdgeCase, LLC  

Where:  
QSI Training Center
                440 Polaris Parkway, Suite 500

           Westerville, OH 43082  

When:
   Tuesday, September 22, 2009
                Noon - 1:30 p.m.  

RSVP:
    Anji Morey @ amo...@quicksolutions.com by noon on Monday, September 21!    
 

*Food & beverages will be provided!


Title:
 
High Level Architecture of Cucumber

Speaker:
 Leon Gersing, EdgeCase

 

Speaker Bio:
Leon Gersing has been bringing value to clients large and small for over ten years, and has a passion for technology, art and community. He has experience using technologies ranging from ASP.Net and C++, to Objective-C, Ajax, Actionscript‚ Äì and, of course, Ruby and Rails. Leon also has high hopes for IronRuby and the much needed efficiency and agility that it has the potential to bring to the .Net world.

A believer in building strong communities, Leon spends time presenting on a wide variety of development topics at events and user groups in the region. He loves nothing more than to be around other developers, working together to create something unique and fresh; something that has never been done before. He believes there is no challenge that can't be overcome with passion and creativity. He spends his spare time with his wife, two beautiful girls, two sweet kitties, and his ukulele.

Description: Cucumber is a tool designed to improve the dialog between Business Analysts and Technical Staff. It leverages the flexibility of the Ruby language to allow business and technical users to use a common lexicon to describe business value with reduced ambiguity which can lead to less confusion on both sides of the converstaion and stronger solutions with fewer defects.

In this discussion we'll go over the high level architecture of cucumber, what it is and how you may be able to utilize it in your development. We'll also go over some tips and tricks to help you get started with this new technology with the least amount of overhead and friction.

Mike Doel

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Sep 14, 2009, 2:53:40 PM9/14/09
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On Sep 14, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Robert Stevenson wrote:

> [FYI: Mike Doel is looking to do a talk on Cucumber in the next
> month or so, but here's another opportunity to learn more about
> Cucumber. Be sure to email the Quick Solutions contact below to
> RSVP! -Rob]

And for what it's worth, I'm willing to take direction on the level of
stuff to talk about. I didn't know Leon had planned this and am wary
about duplicating stuff and boring people.

If most people arrive at my talk already familiar with Cucumber basics
(e.g. by having attended Leon's talk), I can cover some of the more
advanced topics like:

- Handling tabular data
- Extending cucumber
- Writing cucumber steps in java
- Testing outbound email
- Integrating code coverage

Give me some feedback and I'll prepare appropriately. Note that I'm
planning to do this for the October CRB meeting.

Mike

Bryce Glass

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Sep 14, 2009, 2:56:54 PM9/14/09
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Mike, if you do an hour on 'extending Cucumber', this talk may well be one for the history books... or Hollywood.

http://whatsontv.co.uk/blogs/movietalk/files/2009/04/group_shot_-2_rgb.jpg

You may have to charge admission..

- bryce
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