Cucumber Recipes

Foreword

There was a time when one could analyze all that a program needed to do and then write the program that met that need. This stopped being a winning strategy when computers got big enough and fast enough to hold a description of the problem, not just the solution.

I embraced this change that went by the name of object-oriented programming. The advice was to divide large programs into parts that captured natural diversity. Then we were to program the parts to ask other parts for results without saying exactly how these results were to be achieved. This sounded simple. We no longer had to think everything through all of the time. Then, when we discovered one more case late in development, we were thankful we kept that complexity at a ...