Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites
by quantumhobbit on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:22AM
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This is my experience as well. Cucumber and the like sound like a way to get 'the business' involved more, but in practice the cucumber files just become yet another thing that the developers or testers have to write. At which point you are better off with more traditional testing methods.
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Re:Lessons Learned from Software Rewrites
by auvrw on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:44AM
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> the cucumber files just become yet another thing that the developers or testers have to write
yep, if (and it's sounding more and more like "when," even outside of my anecdotal experience) that decision is made, there's not much point in using cucumber or similar.
i was kind of hoping someone would say, "yea, our product manager writes domain-specific specification files, and the workflow is so much easier!" ... but no, i'll just continue being mildly cynical a/b the role of developers in industry.