{"id":825,"date":"2015-11-10T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2022-07-20T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:22:48","slug":"testing-in-a-behavior-driven-development-environment-bdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/testing-in-a-behavior-driven-development-environment-bdd\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing in a Behavior Driven Development Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behavior Driven Development (BDD)<\/strong> deals with the usage of simple domain specific language to effectively express the behavior and the expected outcomes. It is a process refinement over the Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). The concept of BDD helps to better the conversation between developers, testers, and domain experts. It also makes it easier to develop a consistent vocabulary for analysts, testers, and developers, and eases business processes. It further serves to eliminate the ambiguity and miscommunication that occurs when technical people talk to business people. Moreover, it closes the gap between developers and users by operating on an easy-to-learn language called Gherkin<\/strong>. This is a business readable language and has a domain specific edge that serves two purposes: documentation and automated tests. In BDD, a developer or a Quality Analyst (QA) engineer might clarify the requirements by breaking this down into specific examples.<\/p>\n

General Practices for\u00a0Behavior Driven Development(BDD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

BDD primarily focuses on reaching out a clear understanding of the desired software behavior through consolidated discussions with the stakeholders. It extends TDD by writing test cases in a natural language that even non-programmers can read it. This natural language helps the users, stakeholders, project management team to easily understand it without any technical language knowledge or support. A team using BDD should provide a significant portion of functional documentation in the form of user stories. Some of the BDD practices include:<\/p>\n