1. Cucumber
Self Help Group

2. Cucumber?

3. Answers!

4. Patterns

5. Plan
• Brainstorming
• Organising
• Reviewing

6. Goals
• Learn about pattern writing
• Learn from peoples approaches
• The beginning of some patterns

7. Good Patterns
• Beautify without a name
• Side effects of applying pattern
• Context

8. Good Patterns
•Do I believe anyone will understand, remember and
take action?
•Does the pattern ask us to make or do anything?
•Does the pattern solve a natural problem?
•Does the pattern speak?

9. Ambitious

10. Brainstorming

11. Examples
Organise Cucumber
Happy, Bad
features features are
path, not
by output of
exhaustive
stakeholders conversation

12. Imperative vs Declarative Non technical
Balancing Unit vs Acceptance people writing
Where are Cukes born? Consistent language
Pairing with QA Maintenance
Managing state Coupling to UI
Linking with sketches Organisation
Regular expression hell! DRY vs Readability

13. Organising

14. Writing

15. Reviewing
Wow we made it this far!

16. Thanks!