May meeting announcement – Gherkin Workshop

We are one quarter down this year and it’s time to check off that resolution you made! It’s time to develop and sharpen your Gherkin Skills with Joe Ours.

In this session, Joe will provide sample requirement with a goal of converting this traditional requirement to efficient acceptance test scenarios in Gherkin. It will be a working session and you’ll learn Gherkin and some of the best practices to use in creating efficient scenarios. No tools or laptop needed! Developing acceptance test scenarios in Gherkin is very important part of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) process.

Joe Ours is responsible for the development and delivery of Cohesion’s Quality Assurance and Testing Services. As Director of Quality Assurance and Testing Service, he draws on more than 15 years’ experience providing executive-level leadership while managing high profile initiatives with a demonstrated ability to lead people towards successful delivery.

We are meeting at Quick Solutions.

Thank you Quick Solutions for hosting us and sponsoring lunch!

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at -http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/115939662/

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April meeting announcement – Automated testing of Windows apps with Cucumber

In this first meeting of Spring this year, we have Levi Wilson speaking on Automating Windows Applications with Cucumber!

When we think of writing automated tests with ruby and cucumber, native Windows applications are not the first thing that come to mind. If you have looked into writing acceptance tests for Windows applications (written in .NET), chances are you have come across solutions such as SpecFlow or Raconteur, but what are the options if we want to drive our tests from ruby using cucumber or RSpec?

This talk will walk through a couple of gems that allow us to be able to write automated tests for native Windows applications, some of the drawbacks as well as how to go about automating an application in a live coding session.

We are meeting at Nationwide‘s building at Rings Road. Conference room – 1C.

Thank you Nationwide for hosting us and sponsoring lunch!

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at - http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/110213972/

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Parking Instruction Added for March meeting – Test Data Management – Open Discussion

Is Test Data bothering you?

Does your cucumber test suite often fail because you don’t have enough Test Data?

Is Test Data Management your biggest barrier (or not?!) in achieving efficiency in ATDD?

How are you managing Test Data in multiple environments?

Do you have a best practice to share with others on Test Data Management?

Is there a tool that you think can help teams practicing ATDD with Test Data Management?

Can you contribute to the discussion related to Test Data?

If you answered any of these questions in yes, then you should attend our meeting in March that focuses on Test Data and its management. It’s going to be a very comprehensive open discussion among ATDD enthusiasts representing diverse range of industries and organization across central Ohio region.

Come prepared with all the questions you have and answers to some of the above questions. Bring someone with you who might make this discussion even more interesting!

We are going to meet at Pillar Technology, Columbus. Lunch will be provided.

Thank you Pillar Technology for hosting us and sponsoring lunch!

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at - http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/93163032/

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
11:30 AM

Pillar Technology
580 N. Fourth Street, Columbus, OH 43215
http://goo.gl/maps/IWM5k

March meeting announcement – Test Data Management – Open Discussion

Is Test Data bothering you?

Does your cucumber test suite often fail because you don’t have enough Test Data?

Is Test Data Management your biggest barrier (or not?!) in achieving efficiency in ATDD?

How are you managing Test Data in multiple environments?

Do you have a best practice to share with others on Test Data Management?

Is there a tool that you think can help teams practicing ATDD with Test Data Management?

Can you contribute to the discussion related to Test Data?

If you answered any of these questions in yes, then you should attend our meeting in March that focuses on Test Data and its management. It’s going to be a very comprehensive open discussion among ATDD enthusiasts representing diverse range of industries and organization across central Ohio region.

Come prepared with all the questions you have and answers to some of the above questions. Bring someone with you who might make this discussion even more interesting!

We are going to meet at Pillar Technology, Columbus. Lunch will be provided.

Thank you Pillar Technology for hosting us and sponsoring lunch!

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at - http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/93163032/

Meeting Details -

Thursday, March 7, 2013
11:30 AM

Pillar Technology
580 N. Fourth Street, Columbus, OH 43215
http://goo.gl/maps/IWM5k

February meeting announcement – Functional Testing in Android Platform

Functional testing has proven to be an important part of any testing strategy and with the increased popularity of mobile applications for business applications these two worlds are now colliding. This talk will demonstrate an implementation of functional testing on the Androidplatform which utilizes Cucumber and the PageObject pattern gem by LeanDog (Gametel/Brazenhead). It will show how you can not only wrap functional tests around your application but bring those cuke tests closer to the human readable spectrum.

Speaker of February meeting is Phil Jordan.

We are meeting at Northwoods, Dublin. Lunch will be provided.

Thanks to Northwoods for hosting us and providing lunch!

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP at - http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/93163012/

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