Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Thu, 16 May 2013 08:14:14 +0200
:Revision: 		7
:Copyright:		All rights reserved


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Slides: Behat & Beautiful APIs
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:Description:
    Last Wednesday I did a little talk marathon by first presenting a Webinar on
    Behavior Driven Development with Behat and afterwards going straight to
    Cologne for the Symfony Usergroup, where I spoke about Designing Beautiful
    APIs. Find the slides of my talks here.
:Abstract:
    Last Wednesday I did a little talk marathon by first presenting a Webinar on
    Behavior Driven Development with Behat and afterwards going straight to
    Cologne for the Symfony Usergroup, where I spoke about Designing Beautiful
    APIs. Find the slides of my talks here.
:Keywords:
    behavior driven development, bdd, behat, object oriented design, api, php,
    development, presentation

Last Wednesday I did a little talk marathon by first presenting a `Webinar on
Behavior Driven Development with Behat`__ and afterwards going straight to
Cologne for the Symfony Usergroup, where I spoke about *Designing Beautiful
APIs*. Find the slides of my talks here.

__ /blog/042_webinar_bdd_behat.html

BDD with Behat
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.. note::
    Get a Qafoo expert on-site to `get your team started with Behavior Driven
    Development`__.

__ /services/training/topics/behaviour_driven_development.html

The software development process of Behavior Driven Development is gaining more
and more attention in the PHP world. Based on Test Driven Development, this
approach aims to create executable software specifications which are also human
readable, especially for non-technical team members.

In my Webinar, which Qafoo organized in cooperation with Zend, I introduced the
general idea of a double feedback test cycle and the technical basis on how to
realize acceptance tests with Behat. Although a webinar feels always kind of
strange because direct feedback of the attendees is missing, I had the feeling
that the presentation was well received. At least, the over 50 attendees stayed
almost completely for the whole timeslot and quite some detailed
questions occurred at the end.

The recording of the webinar will be made available by Zend soon, I will keep
you posted on our blog. You can already `download the slides`__ here.

__ /talks/13_05_webinar_bdd_behat.pdf

Designing Beautiful APIs
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Although not deeply related to the Symfony2 framework, I was invited to talk
about designing object oriented programming interfaces `at the SFUGCGN`__,
because that topic affects every PHP developer. I was a bit in a hurry because
of the short time frame for travel, but still the talk went well.

On the basis of a step-by-step refactoring from a really bad API I refined the code
to be more expressive, extensible and adjustable. I really liked that my
presentation spawned good discussions and that there was some nicely
challenging feedback. In the end I actually missed my train back, but that was
worth it. The slides of my talk are `available for download`__.

__ http://www.meetup.com/sfugcgn/events/104715432/
__ /talks/13_05_sfugcgn_beautiful_apis.pdf

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