Author Archives: Duncan Butler

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About Duncan Butler

Trying to be a very agile software developer, working in C# with Specflow, Nunit and Machine Specifications, and in the evening having fun with Ruby and Rails

Updating SpecSalad

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Duncan Butler

I have missed a couple of updates to SpecFlow recently and decided to do a catch up for my little testing framework SpecSalad.  With this update the framework now supports the latest version of both SpecFlow (1.9.0) and also the … Continue reading →

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New update to SpecSalad

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Duncan Butler

It has been a while since I have blogged, and actually done any development outside of work, the joys of releasing a new product to market; but with the holiday I took the opportunity to have a look at some … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Development

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Duncan Butler

I am planning on giving a talk, tutorial, lecture, rant (take your pick), about my take on the whole test driven development movement, how to do it, the pitfalls to avoid and the improvements in production that can be achieved, … Continue reading →

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Spec Salad Update

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Duncan Butler

I uploaded a new version of spec salad to the Nuget library today. Primarily this is a compatibility update with the new version of SpecFlow v1.7, and a couple of bug fix’s that I have noticed when using the framework. … Continue reading →

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Multiple Roles for SpecSalad

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Duncan Butler

I have uploaded a new version of the SpecSalad framework to both the Nuget gallery and Github.  The breaking news is the introduction of multiple roles for a scenario, prior to this release SpecSalad could only define a single role … Continue reading →

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SpecSalad update

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Duncan Butler

I have updated SpecSalad with a new feature today, ApplicationRoles is now a base class which all roles must inherit from, this base class contains the functionality to save and retrieve values.  This will allow a task to store important … Continue reading →

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SpecSalad Part 2

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Duncan Butler

In the last post I completed the start game feature, In this part I am going to be working on the submit guess feature. Feature: Code-breaker submits guess     The codebreaker submits a guess of four numbers.     The game marks the … Continue reading →

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SpecSalad Part 1

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Duncan Butler

I have updated SpecSalad and also at last pushed it up to the Nuget gallery, when it is installed, it also installs SpecFlow and NUnit, along with adding a reference to the spec salad dll  in the step assemblies node … Continue reading →

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Spec Salad

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Duncan Butler

I while ago I watched a talk by Antoney Marcano at skills matter about a new framework called cukesalad which sits on top of ruby cucumber and allows the test framework to be used without having to write step definitions.  … Continue reading →

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Arguments For Agile

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Duncan Butler

Corey Haines keynote at ACE (Agile Central Europe) puts succinctly why agile works, it’s a great keynote, and I am noting it here mainly for my own future reference, but it is well worth watching. http://vimeo.com/22487205

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