Drupal Nights presents "Behat: Human-Readable Automated Testing" with Seth Cohn on Thurs Dec 19

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Behat: Human-Readable Automated Testing with Seth Cohn

Drupal Nights Hosted by BioRAFT, Cambridge MA

Monthly camp style talk - 3rd Thursday of the month. Learn, network, eat, & enjoy!

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Date/Time

Thursday, Dec 19, 2013 - 6:30pm

Location

Davenport Conference Room
25 1st Street
Cambridge, MA 02141

Speaker

Seth Cohn

Presentation

Behat is a tool that makes behavior driven development (BDD) possible. With BDD, you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your Drupal site. These stories can then be auto-tested against your website, whether in the midst of development, or on a live site. And yes, it’s as cool as it sounds!

Behat, if embraced by enough Drupal folks, has the potential to vastly improve the way we build and test Drupal websites. Testing language can be developed by module maintainers, and allow nearly codefree testing to be developed by everyone, as needed, per site.

Behat IS NOT unit testing nor a specification testing tool. Behat is a Scenario-oriented BDD framework with functional testing capabilities as part of a communication process between stake-holders and developers. Think Agile User Stories meets Selenium.

Behat is currently used to test Drupal.org, allowing a variety of coders to work on a single site, and ensure that no existing functionality will break as they add new features. Or as it's migrated from one version to another. Imagine that on your site. We will review Behat (and Mink, and related code), how to use it with Drupal, Drush, and the existing modules/code to support that. We will demo live testing, and so how easy it is to write tests, with and without code.

RSVP Now!   Drupal Nights are FREE events!  Let us know you are coming so we know how much pizza to order.

This event will also be live broadcast via YouTube starting around 7PM EDT.

About the Speaker

Only local images are allowed.Seth Cohn is currently Technical Lead at BioRAFT, and spends a great deal of his time focusing on system engineering and best practices. He's presented at DrupalCon, and a number of DrupalCamps around the world. He's been a Drupaller for about 9 years, and tech-editted 'Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers'. A former elected official in New Hampshire, he authored and passed the nation's first state level law for encouraging governmental Open Source and Open Data.

About BioRAFT

The BioRAFT platform is an innovative solution for laboratory safety, compliance and training. Designed by scientific researchers to aid scientific research, BioRAFT streamlines and automates the training and compliance process while being easy for researchers to use, which reduces compliance and training overhead and increases researcher productivity.

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