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Deliberate practice offers a unique opportunity to prepare for the challenges of software engineering, not by simply practising on the job, but by proactively honing skills in a safe and enjoyable environment. Instead of waiting for real-world tasks to push us into learning, deliberate practice allows us to intentionally focus on areas of growth. This post explores how deliberate pracitce can help us become better at what we do.

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) offers a dynamic and collaborative approach to software development, and tools like Cucumber and Gherkin make it easier to bring this methodology to life. Rather than diving directly into complex coding tasks, BDD encourages teams to collaboratively define application behaviour in simple, human-readable language. By using Gherkin syntax to write clear, structured feature files, developers, testers, and business stakeholders can ensure they all share a common understanding of the product’s functionality.

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.