Description
Summary
BDD in Action teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process. First you’ll be able to learn to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you’ll be able to discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you’ll be able to apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
You can’t write good software if you do not keep in mind what it’s supposed to do. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) encourages teams to use conversation and concrete examples to build up a shared understanding of how an application will have to work and which features in point of fact matter. With an emerging body of best practices and sophisticated new tools that assist in requirement analysis and test automation, BDD has turn into a hot, mainstream practice.
About the Book
BDD in Action teaches you BDD principles and practices and shows you how to integrate them into your existing development process, it doesn’t matter what language you use. First, you’ll be able to apply BDD to requirements analysis so you’ll be able to focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you’ll be able to discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you’ll be able to apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code.
No prior experience with BDD is required.
What’s Inside
- BDD theory and practice
- How BDD will have an effect on your team
- BDD for acceptance, integration, and unit testing
- Examples in Java, .NET, JavaScript, and more
- Reporting and living documentation
About the Author
John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in BDD, automated testing, and software lifecycle development optimization.
Table of Contents
- Building software that makes a difference
- BDD—the whirlwind tour
- Understanding the business goals: Feature Injection and related techniques
- Defining and illustrating features
- From examples to executable specifications
- Automating the scenarios
- From executable specifications to rock-solid automated acceptance tests
- Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer
- Automating acceptance criteria for non-UI requirements
- BDD and unit testing
- Living Documentation: reporting and project management
- BDD in the build process