Feb 15th - Behaviour Driven Development & Behat, and prizes!

• 18:30 – Turn up, have a drink, some pizza, and a chat. 🍕 🍻 ☕️

• 19:00 – "What Makes a Senior Developer?" - Ashley Broadley

• 19:25 – Mid session interval

• 19:30 – Behaviour Driven Development & Behat: Telling stories through code - Matt Brunt

• 20:30 – Pop over the road to Headrow House pub

☞ Behaviour Driven Development & Behat: Telling stories through code - Matt Brunt

Stories? Scenarios? BDD? Are these just more words in the ever-growing list of jargon that developers have to know? Or are they something more important than new terms to memorise?

In this session we’ll look at how BDD fits into the software development work-flow, how to tell user stories through features, and how to automate them in Behat.

These techniques will help to ensure you’re writing well designed and tested software that focuses on what the users want from a system.

Matt is Senior Software Engineer at Viva IT Limited. Mentoring a team and fostering a culture of sharing, learning, openness and quality. Player of tabletop and RPG games, Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master. Flier of fast first-person-view quadcopters. Lover of jaffa cakes.

Matt Brunt on Twitter: @brunty (https://twitter.com/brunty)

☞ What Makes a Senior Developer? - Ashley Broadley

We're going to have an open discussion, hosted by Ashley Broadley who will bring his experiences to the table, to talk about what qualities and skills you need to gain the title of "Senior". How does this vary between companies and environments? What are some tangible things you can do to become one? Have a think, bring your experiences and ideas and we'll see what we get.

Ash is a Principle Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming, and on twitter @ls12styler (https://twitter.com/ls12styler)

☞ Competition!

Sign up to this event on Meetup and turn up on the night, we'll pull your name out of a hat (it may be an electronic hat). What can you win? Some good old fashioned programming books provided by our sponsors. Not very competitive, admittedly, but you stand a good chance of winning!

☞ Sponsors

We can't do this without them. Show them some love.

Futurelabs (http://futurelabs.org.uk/) - (@futurelabs (https://twitter.com/leedsfuturelabs)) The venue and soft drink providers.

Providers of food, drinks, prizes, and possibilities:

Quidco/Maple Syrup Media (https://www.maplesyrupmedia.com/careers/) - @quidco (https://twitter.com/quidco)

Sky Betting & Gaming (http://skybetcareers.com/about-us) - @skybetcareers (https://twitter.com/skybetcareers)

Inviqa (http://inviqa.com/) - @inviqa (https://twitter.com/inviqa)