Why I dislike Cucumber - BDD differently

At the end of last year we started using BDD process at Masabi as part of our future continuous delivery system. We are using Cucumber as probably the most popular BDD framework.
With some Specs2 experience (at Strollimo), I shortly realised, I do not like Cucumber because of:

1. The feature files
2. The global step definitions
3. The missing feature scope
4. Tooling: Junit integration, runner, maven integration, test separation

Spock Presentation and Demo

Today I gave a presentation and demo at Masabi about Spock testing framework. I was inspired by Rob Fletcher to create this presentation but I changed his original vending machine demo with a much more simple one.

The code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/bsudy/SpockDemo

Integration testing ReactiveMongo

During the development of Moresby Stroll I had to solve the testing of our data access layer. Moresby Stroll Server uses Akka Actors as a base of its architecture, therefore the data access layer is implemented by an Actor, the DataAccessActor.

DataAccessActor is responsible to provide all the persistence functionality what the business logic and higher layers require. Let's take a look at the DataAccessActor.

Weekly bean - 26/04/2013

Sorry for no having written the usual blog posts for months. We have met every Friday morning, just I was lazy to write about them. So..
...on last Friday - as usual - we met at Canary Wharf in a Café to talk about the IT world, news, experience, technologies.

Weekly news

• Google Street View Hungary - finally :)

Topics

• Lean startup - Eric Ries@Google
• Mechanizm
• Pros and cons
• Movements in Hungary
• Project Stroll
• API changes
• Roadmap
• Places
• Persisted users
• Discovery
• Other features will be decided after the main functionalities are built.
• JavaDoc
• Why do we need documentation?
• What should be written there?
• Interview
• Process
• Questions

Next bean

The next Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean will take place somewhere in London on 3th of May at 7am.

Proposed topics:

Devoxx 2013 London

On Tuesday and Wednesday I have been on Devoxx 2013. It was a really good conference - many thanks to the organizers - and I'm writing this post to summarize what sessions I attended to and what I experienced there.

Weekly flashcard - Lamport's Backery Algorithm

• What is this algorithm for?
• How does it work?

Download: OpenDocument, PDF

Weekly bean - 01/02/2013

On Friday - as usual - we met at Canary Wharf in a Café to talk about the IT world, news, experience, technologies. This was the last meeting at this place because it's become a bit boring. So next week we will re-base ourself to another fascinating location of London.

Weekly news

• Google+ is the second largest Social Network (behind the Facebook) (link)
• Blackberry Z10 released

Weekly flashcard

Every now and again a small topic must be elaborated what can be put on a flashcard and easy to learn.

• Lamport's bakery algorithm (post)

Topics

• Android Calabash - Balazs Balasz
• how it works - feature file and step definitions
• working code example - overview and demostration
• architecture review
• why is it good/better than Robotium alone
• how am I planning to use it at Hailo?
• SVN - Git merge experiences - Barnabas Sudy

Next bean

The next Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean will take place somewhere in London on 8th of February at 7am.

Proposed topics:

• Code conventions
• Weekly quotation - 3rd chapter from Code Complete