Gáspár Nagy on software

coach, trainer and bdd addict, creator of SpecFlow; owner of Spec Solutions

Things I have learned from my first online BDD course

by Gáspár on April 14, 2020

COVID-19 has changed our life from one day to another. For me this meant that within a few days all of my upcoming onsite BDD courses got cancelled. Not a good perspective if you are a BDD trainer like me. But after reviving from the initial shock and having some discussions with fellow trainers I figured out a way how to practice even collaboration techniques like BDD at online/remote courses. And it worked. I have just finished my first online BDD training successfully. Now it is high time to summarize and evaluate.

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Thoughts on the SpecFlow acquisition

by Gáspár on March 5, 2020

The most of the questions or comments I have received recently are related to the acquisition of SpecFlow by Tricentis. I’ve got congratulations, although I was not involved in this deal at all (it was between my former employer, TechTalk and Tricentis) and I’ve been asked questions related to the future of SpecFlow and generally about how an open-source project can be bought.

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Gherkin6 rule support in SpecFlow v3.1

by Gáspár on December 16, 2019

Despite the current version of Gherkin (v6), the syntax for documenting requirements using the Given-When-Then format has not really changed until recently. Gherkin v6 is backwards compatible, but it introduces a few new features that might be useful for all BDD practitioners. These changes are supported by the new SpecFlow v3.1 release. [read more…]