cucumber

I buy alot of their Cucumber flavor myself and the stuff is delicious.

Gherkin is a spec language for writing tests, Cucumber is a library for Ruby and Java that interprets Gherkin specifications.

She eventually taught herself SQL and how to write Cucumber tests, so she could better QA test the code she was overseeing.

You can also have good code quality while eating an all cucumber diet.

Or cucumber varieties that aren't as big but don't taste like water.

(typically with a blurry small photo of some green poor thing that falls between a child in cucumber disguise and an alligator).

She is a vegan, and several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce, and celery.

The ridiculousness you would feel about being required to eat a cucumber sandwich before being allowed to commit code to github is exactly how I feel about being required to think politically correct thoughts before being allowed to commit code to github.

If you change the wording of the test for whatever reason, the old code won't work anymore (actually, I think Cucumber will tell you that there was no test found), necessitating someone to actually verify that the test as written actually tests what the new requirements are.

>The ridiculousness you would feel about being required to eat a cucumber sandwich before being allowed to commit code to github is exactly how I feel about being required to think politically correct thoughts before being allowed to commit code to github.

This is why in Extreme Programming (and Cucumber), user stories are supposed to include a "Why?".

What I've done is present an analogy to you (no more of an "uninteresting non-sequitur" than your talk about cucumber eating) and apparently it fell on unwilling ears.

Gherkin/Cucumber's big thing is that it lets the people who can't read code (i.e.

You have experience writing well tested code with tools like RSpec,Cucumber or Minitest.

Cucumber pop has quickly become my favorite soft drink.