Automated Acceptance Testing

My talk on using Calabash for Automated Acceptance Testing at CocoaHeads Durham

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1. Automated
   Acceptance Testing
   or: How I stopped worrying and
   trusted the tests
   by Josh Johnson - @jnjosh
   

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2. Disclaimer.
   (I haven’t always tested)
   

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3. So, testing...
   

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4. Acceptance Testing
   

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5. Frank
   KIF
   

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7. calaba.sh
   http://
   

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8. How does it work?
   

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10. As a role
    I want action
    In order to goal
    

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11. Given context
    When event occurs
    Then ensure outcome
    

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12. So, what does this look like?
    

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14. Feature: Cool Button View
    As a user of Cool Button App
    I want to be able to press buttons
    So I can see cool text and images
    

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15. Feature: Cool Button View
    As a user of Cool Button App
    I want to be able to press buttons
    So I can see cool text and images
    Scenario: Hello displays message
    Given the app is running
    When I touch "Hello"
    Then I see the text "Hello CocoaHeads!"
    

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17. Feature: Cool Button View
    As a user of Cool Button App
    I want to be able to press buttons
    So I can see cool text and images
    Scenario: Hello displays message
    Given the app is running
    When I touch "Hello"
    Then I see the text "Hello CocoaHeads!"
    Scenario: Cool displays image
    Given the app is running
    When I touch "Cool"
    Then I see the "hoff"
    

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20. Cool!
    

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22. Remember when I said “Device”
    testing and “Rotation”?
    

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23. www.lesspainful.com
    

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24. video courtesy lesspainful.com
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4TLdf02L4
    

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25. Robots!*
    

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26. Robots!
    * well, not exactly robots, but it is still pretty cool
    *
    

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27. So, How did you stop
    worrying and trust the
    tests?
    

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28. Use something that
    makes it easy.
    

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29. Make it a deliverable.
    

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30. Questions?
    

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31. Thanks!
    calaba.sh
    http://
    

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