Behavior-Driven Development

Learn the basics of behavior-driven development (BDD). Discover how BDD can improve collaboration, refine requirements, and identify defects earlier in the software testing cycle.

Introduction

• Collaboration with behavior-driven development (BDD)
• What you should know
• Getting set up

1. Behaving Agilely

• Agile in context
• TDD historically
• Why is BDD so compelling?
• Case study conclusions
• Building the right thing
• Concrete example

2. Give Me an Example

• Three amigos meeting
• The three amigos in action
• Gherkin specifications
• Translate the scenario into Gherkin

3. Hands On with Cucumber

• BDD frameworks
• The emergence of Cucumber
• Set up the caffeinate project
• Define the scenario
• Model the domain
• Embracing failure
• Objectify the application
• Add a second scenario

4. Remember the Process

• Review
• Behavior before function

Conclusion

• Next steps