I recently heard an account of a web development project from both the point of view of the consultancy doing the work and the client. Did their experiences match?

Learn about make-believe business analysts and about the six costs to using Cucumber. (Teaser: Cucumber, as used by the majority of Rails programmers, is no more than a clumsy wrapper over basic integration tests. The articles researches major open source projects, reapplies old wisdom from a BDD expert and takes a damning look at the inexcusable use of the web_steps.rb package by Rails programmers.)

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