Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
This screencast gives a 10 minute how to on getting started with GivWenZen. GivWenZen allows a user to use the BDD Given When Then vocabulary and plain text sentences to help a team get the words right and create a ubiquitous language to describe and test a business domain. [youtube …
Ruby’s testing culture goes way back, and has been a force for making many Ruby projects a showcase for solid, maintainable code. That said, within a business an exclusive focus on TDD and BDD can easily miss the bigger picture and drive optimizations in the development process that negatively impact …
Gospecify is a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework for Go. Rather than focus on testing every nook and cranny of some code, it helps a programmer produce an executable specification of that code’s behavior. Go’s syntax allowed gospecify to be almost as expressive as Ruby’s rpsec; however, a few tricks had …
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled …
In this webcast we’ll introduce Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Jasmine (a BDD framework for JavaScript); install Jasmine and add related code to the app to support BDD; discuss how to write a failing test first, then add functionality to make a test pass; and finally we’ll develop a simple …
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) started out as a way of teaching Test-Driven Development without getting sidetracked into the complex world of testing. BDD has grown to encompass behaviour at the story level, and is crossing over into the acceptance testing space. This session introduces some of the ideas and vocabulary behind …
