Songkick

Here at Songkick the developers make heavy use of automated tests to bring you the highest-quality product we know how.

Our tools of choice for this are Cucumber and RSpec, two shining examples of open-source products which we get great pleasure from working with. This week, on a trip to the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, I had the chance to meet up with Aslak Hellesoy and David Chelimsky, the lead developers of these two tools.

David and Aslak give up a huge amount of their spare time to build these two products, for no financial gain. As a start-up we could not survive without these kinds of efforts, so it was a pleasure to be able to express our thanks in person, in the best way we know how: a delicious bottle of scotch whisky for each of them.

Thanks again David and Aslak.