On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:43, aslak hellesoy wrote:
Hi folks,
Cucumber has become popular a lot quicker than I had anticipated.
Still, with its plain text nature it is still limited to programmers
(in most teams).
I want to close the gap between customers/product owners/business
analysts and programmers,
and I'm convinced that a fat client is needed to achieve this.
Something that lets people
browse, edit and run features inside a friendly user interface.
So I'm asking you - what would this user interface be like? How do
people want to access it
and use it?
We have a person filling the 'Product Owner' role who is completely
non-technical.
I think it would be nice if there was a way for her to be able to do
this:
* fire up the client
* choose 'open project'
* enter the URL to the git repo where the project lives
* then see a nice overview of all the features
* be able to print off features for taking to meetings, reading on
the train etc, nicely formatted
* be able to edit features and easily push the changes back to the
git repo
To me, this is more important than being able to run them. I don't
think non-techie users need to be able to run features as they won't
be able to do anything about it when they inevitably fail. I also hate
the idea of having to set up Ruby, gems etc on a non-techie person's
computer. It's better, IMO, if the tool makes it easy for them to push
their changes into a git repo where they can either be swept into the
main dev fork / branch, or automatically run using CI, et etc.
So that's where I think the focus of such a tool should be - browsing,
reviewing and editing features rather than executing them, and with
some SCM integration to make all that easier for non-techies. I do
think that eventually the ability to run features will become
important too, but I would like to see this side of the problem solved
first.
Obviously there's a dependency on git in what I'm suggesting, but I'm
sure it would be easy enough to plug in other SCMs if that was popular
enough.
Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com
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