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Methods & Tools - April 2018
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Green Coffee - Running Gherkin Tests for Android Green Coffee is an open source library that allows you to run your acceptance tests written in Gherkin in your Android instrumentation tests using the step definitions that you declare. Gherkin is a Business Readable, Domain Specific Language that lets you describe software's behavior without detailing how that behavior is implemented. This allows to apply a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) approach and Agile testing to mobile software development. Read more...


*** Quote of the Month ***


Most people hate making decisions, and are afraid to make the wrong decisions. This is in my opinion one of the root causes why we have so much horrible software.

When you keep on having problems with a piece of software, throw it away. If it really feels as a loss, re-create it, then you will have a better version.

If it doesn’t feel that you lost something (and your users also don’t miss anything), then there is no problem so you did the right thing to throw it away. Leave it like that, and invest your time in more valuable things.

Source: What Drives Quality, Ben Linders, https://leanpub.com/


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