BDD Explained (Behaviour Driven Development)
1,938Dave Farley explores a little of the history and how we can apply this behavioural focus to build better software faster. Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, is a successful idea. It was conceived as one thing and fairly quickly morphed into another. It is a TDD practice widely used by Continuous Delivery and DevOps teams.
BDD is an approach to software development that encourages driving software development from a strong focus on the behaviour of the system as perceived by its users. It didn't start there though, originally it was invented in a consultancy in London as a better way to teach TDD. So false competitions like BDD vs TDD probably don't make lots of sense.
The modern approach to BDD using tools like Cucumber and SpecFlow is really a form of "Acceptance Test Driven Development" (ATDD), but now we are really getting into the jargon.
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Useful Books on this topic:
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"Domain Driven Design", by Eric Evans ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WXJ94m
"Specifcation By Example", by Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/2TlfYaH
"Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests", By Nat Price & Steve Freeman ➡️ https://amzn.to/2Lt3jho