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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the wonderful Seb Rose.

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an agile approach to delivering software that has been around for well over a decade. It was created to help developers care about quality, morphed into a collaboration approach, and found widespread mis-adoption as a test automation technique.

In this session Seb will explain how BDD is intended to work, what value it delivers when done well, and why much BDD in the workplace falls short.

Learning Objectives:

What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?

● enumerate the three core practices of BDD
● explain the difference between BDD and test automation
● argue that collaboration and learning are at the heart of successful software development

Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:

A Consultant, Coach, Trainer, Analyst, and Developer for over 30 years.

Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a BDD advocate with Smart Bear, helping people integrate all three practices of BDD into their development process and ensuring that appropriate tool support is available.

Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of the BDD Books series "Discovery” and "Formulation" (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).

He blogs at cucumber.io and tweets as @sebrose.