While tools for Behaviour Driven Development like Rspec in Ruby havebeen aimed towards programmers and dealing with classes and objects,Cucumber is aimed at filling the communication gap between customers,programmers and testers. In Cucumber we build a personalised plain textdomain language to talk about the applications behaviour thatnon-technical users can understand and write. With Ruby mappings weturn the plain text into executable tests. We'll look at workingoutside-in with Cucumber and the importance of having a customer'sbusiness value as a direction,which helps us drive towards producing the minimal marketable feature.Looking also at how to use Cucumber with various programming languages.And some of the challenges of trying to introduce Cucumber into anagile environment.

An experience report on the team's journey so far in bringing automated testing to data warehousing using Fitnesse and dbFit: what has worked, what hasn't, and what is still proving a challenge. It will include demo's of the tools in action.