Name: Patterns of BDD Automation - a Fireside chat with Seb Rose and Gáspár Nagy
Start: 2025-11-25T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-25T18:30:00+01:00

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Automation is a frequently discussed topic in the development and test communities - and has been for many years. Similarly, patterns have been part of community discourse ever since the Design Patterns book was published in 1994. It appears to us that both suffer from periodic bursts of hype and long stretches of neglect.
While working on the *Automation Patterns* portion of our new book *Effective Behavior-Driven Development*, we have had the chance to explore the nuances of context specific automation and pattern forms. Our knowledge of BDD-specific automation styles comes from many years of practical application in industry. However, our experience with patterns has, up until this point, been mainly one of consumption. That changed when we took a subset of our BDD automation patterns to this year’s EuroPLoP pattern workshops — and got a refreshed view of pattern authoring.
We’re happy to share the insights gained and challenges remaining in a conversation with VirtualDDD.

### About the speakers

**Seb** has been a consultant, coach, designer, author and developer for over 40 years. He has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from C to Visual Basic.
During his career, he has worked for companies large (e.g. IBM, Amazon) and small, and has extensive experience of failed projects. He's now an independent software consultant and author, promoting effective ways of working to the software development and testing community.
Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of "Effective Behaviour Driven Development" (Manning), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).
He blogs at [claysnow.co.uk](http://claysnow.co.uk/) and socialises as sebrose@mastodon.scot

Gáspár Nagy, the creator of SpecFlow & Reqnroll, bringing over 20 years of experience as a coach, trainer and test automation expert nowadays through his company, called Spec Solutions. He is the co-author of the books "Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples", "Formulation: Document examples with Given/When/Then" and "Effective Behavior-Driven Development" and also leads SpecSync, aiding teams in test traceability with Azure DevOps and Jira. He is active in the open-source community through leading the Reqnroll project. Gáspár shares his insights at conferences, emphasizing his commitment to helping teams implement Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

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