Earlier this year I got to hear about Behaviour Driven Development from Dan North at the Software Architecture Workshop in Arosa, Switzerland. Since then, I’ve been using BDD to various degrees on various projects, and I have to say that it works for me.A few nights ago, I presented BDD at the July GeekDinner in Cape Town. I had no idea how this approach will be received, but I was quite surprised by the interest and chatter that I had with others after the talk, especially around rbehave. I wonder how the conversation would have turned out had I used JBehave examples instead?The rest of the GeekDinner was, as always, an interesting mix of techie, geeky things. Jonathan Hitchcock has a nice wrap-up of the evening.Download my presentation here (PDF format).
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Geek Dinner
A colleague of mine, Anne Botha, gave me a heads up on the Geek Dinner that’s happening in Cape Town on 28 May 2007. It’s been 2 years going on 3 living in Cape Town, so maybe it’s time to join the geek crowd. From the blogs about past dinners, it seems to have a good balance of high quality techie talks and social networking. It will be interesting to see how this compares with the Software Architecture Workshop (convened by Jimmy Nilsson) that I attended in Arosa, Switzerland earlier this year. Jimmy’s event was over over three or four days as compared to one evening. I have a feeling that the tech talk at GeekDinner will be of equivalent quality to that at SAW.
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