After a month off in July, the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group met again last night. Numbers, as usual, were down, but it was an enjoyable meeting.

Nathan demonstrated SpecFlow, a behaviour-driven development framework for .NET, in which you write your “specifications” as “features” and “scenarios” in a plain text, human-readable format, and match them to actual code in the form of “steps”. I was sceptical at first, but having seen Nathan’s demo and watched Rob Conery’s Tekpub video, I’m starting to think that this might be a valuable tool – especially if you’re designing an application from scratch.

Unfortunately I’ll be away for the next two meetings, since Sal and I will be travelling around Europe and the UK. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it! I’m sure the guys have some interesting presentations and discussions lined up, so do consider coming along to the meetings. You never know: you might even learn something! Winking smile