Lone Star PHP 2016
7 - 9 Apr 2016 at Addison Conference Center

Liked the talk and learned something new. Good job

As others have noted -

Good basic flow and content, excellent code examples

practice makes perfect for the nervousness and speedy delivery

I would highly suggest you rip most of the text off the slides and instead use screenshots and images, and showing code on black backgrounds is 100% a bad idea since projectors mangle the heck out of your slides.

The biggest content suggestion I would make is identify your audience for the talk before you begin and pace it accordingly. A portion of the room was fine since they understood composer, PHP, docker, etc, but another portion was utterly lost

It often helps to have multiple "paths" you can take in a tech talk depending on your audience (some slow down explain slides for more beginner crowds you can breeze through if you have advanced people, and more complex bonus stuff at the end for a more advanced audience if you need additional time because they got the basics quickly)

No matter what you put on your abstracts there will always be a bit of adjustments needed for the actual audience.

Great job for your first talk ever. Thanks for putting yourself out there and getting up in front of others to share what you know. It's hard.

Others have already provided some great recommendations for improvement. I'll echo a few of them: explain in more depth what micro services are and why they can be beneficial, consider having a demo micro service ready to show, spend more time explaining what Docker is and why it is useful for micro services.

Keep working on your talk, and keep practicing it at user groups and conferences. Thanks!

Excellent talk, lots of good information, loved the history and timelines

Although the preloading stuff was cool i would have preferred to see some practical examples of stuff with php in HTTP 2 and any changes that might need to be made to accommodate the stuff that is already spec'd and implemented :)

I liked this talk. I'm not entirely sure what I think about the introduction. It was a good, quick introduction to Behat, but if the talk is aimed at people who have already used Behat for a while (which is what I expected based on the title and description), they probably do not need that much of an intro. If one is new to Behat on the other hand, I'd guess that the intro is not enough to allow the rest of the talk to not go over the attendees head. Nevertheless, as I said, I enjoyed this talk.

I really appreciated the structure: progressing from a high level discussion of what BDD is and how to think about doing it well, and then touching on a variety of practical examples of complicated things that people are likely to need and want to do in their day-to-day use of Behat. Jessica knows her stuff and delivers that knowledge clearly and crisply.

Great, light, humorous talk, but left with a number of helpful tools! Recommended for all!

A lot of helpful information on a subject that we (I) definitely need help with!

There was certainly a lot of potential but the intent was a bit lost in having overly busy slides. Nervousness of the speaker definitely showed and hurt the appeal a bit. I would love to see this talk again in a couple of months when it has been polished!

Excellent talk. As a 27+ year self-contractor, the talk was spot-on!