Seb Rose
Co Author Effective Behavior-Driven Development at Manning Publications Co.
West Linton, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSeb Rose is a seasoned consultant, coach and author with over three decades of hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle, from firmware and legacy systems to modern Agile practices and automated testing. He helps teams adopt TDD, BDD and Specification by Example, drawing on roles at Amazon, IBM and SmartBear as well as long-running independent consultancy and training work. Seb is a prolific author and educator—co-authoring the BDD Books series and The Cucumber for Java Book—and regularly lectures for institutions such as Harvard and Lancaster. He blends deep technical fluency (BASIC to Ruby and Java) with practical process change, often embedding automated acceptance testing earlier in delivery to reduce risk. Based in West Linton, Scotland, he is known for turning complex requirements into clear, testable specifications and for advocating lightweight estimation approaches like #NoEstimates.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
1st Computer Science and Electronics, 1st Computer Science and Electronics at The University of Edinburgh
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
testng10
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coverage10
bdd10
cucumber10
gherkin10
cucumber-jvm10
building-blocks10
javascript9
mutation-testing9
ruby9
junit9
system-testing9
jvm-bytecode9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sebrose/useful
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
cucumber-ltd/cyber-dojo-start-points-custom
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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