Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) definition

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is an agile software development practice adding to Test-driven development( TDD) the description of the desired functional behavior :
  • Behavior Driven Development focuses on the behavioral aspect of system for customer and developer but still practices writing test before code.
  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development process, which focuses on user and system interactions.
  • Writing customer requirements as acceptance tests called ATDD.
  • Behavior Driven Development uses Ubiquitous language that can be understood by the developers and stakeholders.
  • When Behavior Driven Development is adapted in a project, the technical nitty-gritty aspects of the requirements and implementation are outlined in a business-oriented language.

BDD benefits

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has 4 benefits :
  • BDD ensures single source of truth by merging specification and test documentation into a single document.
  • BDD can derive concrete examples in a collaborative manner from the acceptance criteria defined for each story.
  • BDD bring business, developers and testers together with a common language
  • BDD acts as a living documentation.

BDD practice

• When you are developing via a BDD approach, the following is internally being used :
  • ATDD: Acceptance Test Driven Development
  • TDD: Test Driven Development
  • DSL: Domain Specific Language
  • DDD: Domain Driven Design
• BDD combines practices from Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) along with the collaboration of development team and domain experts :
  • BDD uses a simple Domain-Specific-Language (DSL) using natural language structure based on the ubiquitous language that can express the behaviors and the expected outcomes.
  • For more information, BDD does not have any formal requirements for exactly how user stories must be written down but Gherkin is a wide-used format to write down the requirements in the BDD approach.
  • BDD is also referred to as Specification by Example and is a synthesis and refinement based on TDD and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) practices.
• Behavior Driven Development is a variation / extension of Test-Driven Development methodology, where the main focus is on :
  • Behavioral specifications of the product or application (or its features).
  • User and System Interactions.

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