Recycling examples

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Explains how to reuse Gherkin examples by swapping adapters: a delegator asks an adapter factory for either a model adapter, REST adapter (Dropwizard + Jersey), or web adapter (Selenium, headless Firefox/Chrome), and can vary databases (in-memory vs SQL). Implements Cucumber-JVM step delegation, runs adapters via Gradle/Cucumber plugin, and keeps fast feedback (~1s) when exercising the model and slower but higher-confidence full web/REST runs (~30s). Code is on GitHub.

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1. 0:00Introduction to recycling examples
2. 2:04Executable specifications and themes
3. 9:31Building the delegator architecture
4. 27:53Pushing complexity to better places
5. 32:13Implementing multiple adapters
6. 37:09Running tests across themes
7. 40:24Hexagonal architecture explained
8. 41:08Resources and closing

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