My second book is out ... kinda

To many of my colleagues and friends writing a book is at the top of the dream list or life goals. I have been very fortunate to have done that, but quite honestly I never even dreamt that I would do it. Or that someone thought that what I had to say was interesting enough to read it.
Maybe should have realised that after 500.000 views on this blog but still...

Ok, something really strange have now happened. I have been published again. The book is called Architect book which is even more strange, since I don't consider myself an architect. At least not on the levels that this book is about.

Cucumber / SpecFlow pro tip: push HOW down

I've just attended my first ever CukeUp conference, that is given by Skillsmatter each year. It's organized by Aslak Hellesoy that created Cucumber five years ago. It attracts a nice audience and community that share a lot of interest with me. For me it was extra fun to meet some of my heros and friends that I've followed and interacted with for quite some time (Matt Wynne and Gaspar Nagy to mention a few).

As always at conferences the learning is plentiful, even though my focus and nervousness was at my talk for a few hours. I especially like Matt Wynnes talk on Cucumber Pro Tips. There's two excellent books (The Cucumber Book and Cucumber recipes) that Matt and friends has written that contains loads of tips and pragmatic hands-on descriptions for any Cucumber user. His talk was an extract from the books.

The biggest thing that stuck in my mind was: push HOW down. He has been talking about that before (very funny here) to great effect in this excellent talk called "BDD - as it was meant to be done!". That point was then something that run through almost every talk (including my in fact) on the conference. At least the once that I heard so far.

Nancy.Testing - a closer look through her testability

For quite some time I've been a fan and proponent of a .net web framework called Nancy. She describe herself like a: "a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono" and she looks like the picture on the side.

There's much to admire about Nancy (a working web app in a tweet is really cool) and the code and features are pure quality from start to finish, much to the work that @theCodeJunkie (Andreas Håkansson) and @grumpydev (Steven Robbins) is putting in, with the help of a growing and engaged community.

The thing that really blowed me away when I first saw it was the testing abilities of Nancy. She's built for testing from the word Go and that gives us some nice features to play with.

I thought I devote a couple of posts to the testing abilities of Nancy, here's what I have planned:

1. Intro to testing with Nancy(this post)
2. The Configurable bootstrapper
3. The Browser and Response objects 
4. Hat and shoeless testing with Simple.Data
5. SpecFlow and Nancy

The underlying idea here is to get to know Nancy better, through tests. Join me if you want. The speed of the blog posts will be much dependent on how the book writing goes (Kanban In Action...). At the time of writing I have the first two posts prepared, and the rest in my head.