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Edinburgh, United Kingdom United Kingdom
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Co Owner at Cucumber Limited
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Consultant, Designer, Analyst and Developer for over 30 years.
I have been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from Architecture to Support, from BASIC to Ruby. Recently I have been helping teams adopt and refine their agile practices, with a particular focus on automated testing.
Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals.
Contributing author to "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" - O'Reilly. Lead author of "The Cucumber for Java Book" - Pragmatic Programmers (2015)
Specialties: Test-driven development, automated acceptance testing, specification by example, BDD, agile processes, coaching, #NoEstimates
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