[rspec-users] [cucumber] Cucumber and CI

[Raimond Garcia]

>David Chelimsky
>That may be so, but one view of agile is that each iteration is a
>mini-waterfall. BDD suggests that we *should* define all of the
>scenarios in the iteration planning meeting because we use them as a
>planning tool (how can we estimate a feature at all before we've
>talked about the acceptance criteria?).

>Pat MAddox
>I don't know that it's bad.  At the beginning of an iteration, I have
>most of the features & scenarios that I'll be working on.  So I start
>off with a big pile of yellows, and as the iteration moves on it
>gradually turns green.  I'd say we average 8-10 pending features at
>the beginning of each iteration maybe.

I really of like this approach of mini-waterfalls, treating them as 
short 1-2 week iterations,
writing only the stories for the upcoming iteration, estimating them and 
organizing them by priorities.
Pivotal does a much better job than myself of telling us what we can do 
depending on our previous velocity.

Regarding commits, the approach I've enjoyed the most, was whilst pair 
programming.
One of us would make the first step go from pending to passing, and make 
the next
step fail.  At that point we committed to a branch.  The other 
programmer,
then pulled from that branch, and followed the same process of 
implementing the code
to make the failing step pass, write the definition of the next step so 
that it failed and
committed to the branch.

We had to work remotely, so every time we committed to the branch we 
also,
disconnected from VNC and connected to the other persons machine.
That way when it was your turn to type you would feel more comfortable 
in your
machine whilst the other person is just observing and discussing whilst
connected to your machine.

Usually once we got a single scenario working we would rebase with 
master
and push to the integration server.  All other scenarios in that feature 
were left pending,
to minimize the chances of breaking the build.

I guess this same process can be applied individually, even though,
its hard to keep the discipline, I usually just keep going without 
committing until the
whole scenario is passing, and its never as much fun as working with 
someone.

Cheers,

Rai
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