Kito and Daniel are joined by special guest Seb Rose (co-author of The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers). They discuss new releases from Polymer, ICEfaces, PrimeFaces, JBoss EAP, SonarCube, Pitest, IntelliJ IDEA, Serenity, and more. They also discuss Behavior-driven-testing (BDD), Cucumber, Geb, Spock, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). UI Tier AngularFaces 2.1.3 has been released! Polymer 0.8 Release ICEfaces EE 4.0.0.GA Includes ICEfaces Mobile Device Simulator ICEpdf 5.1.2: Now With Enhanced Asian Font Capabilities PrimeFaces Sentinel 1.2 Released PrimeFaces 5.2.RC1 Released Introducing PrimeFaces Spark Services (Middleware & Microservices) Tier JBossWS 5.0.0.Final is available! JBoss EAP 6.4 now available Mobile AeroGear iOS SDK v2.3 is out! Misc SonarQube 5.1 released - http://www.sonarqube.org/sonarqube-5-1-in-screenshots/ Pitest 1.1.5 released - http://pitest.org Sonar Pitest Plugin 0.5 released - https://github.com/SonarCommunity/sonar-pitest JOSRA Git Automated Branching Strategy & Jenkins Plugin - http://www.josra.org/blog/An-automated-git-branching-strategy.html IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 released - decompiler with extended debugging facilities Gherkin 3 development continues - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/cukes/YLKsqbBMBoI/DYhfFx8GBegJ Serenity 1.0.47 released better Cucumber integration - http://thucydides.info/docs/serenity-staging/ Discussion Testing with Cucumber and comparison to Geb and Spock - [Cucumber is a collaboration tool - https://cukes.info/blog/2014/03/03/the-worlds-most-misunderstood-collaboration-tool] Teaching TDD with CyberDojo - http://cyber-dojo.org What’s coverage good for? A. Killing mutants efficiently. Events Javazone, Oslo • - September 9-10, 2015 No Fluff Just Stuff Dallas • May 29 - 31, 2015 • Salt Lake City • June 5 - 6, 2015 • Gradle Summit • June 11 - 12, 2015 • Austin • July 10 - 12, 2015 • ÜberConf • July 21 - 24, 2015 • Other Claysnow Limited (Seb Rose’s company) To TDD or not to TDD? That is not the question. Liz Keogh’s blog Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests - book by Freeman/Pryce Dunning-Kruger