When Behaviour Driven Development Goes WRONG!
918What does BDD look like when it goes wrong, and how do we avoid the bear traps on the way to effective behaviour driven development? Behaviour Driven Development or BDD is a fantastic way to organise software development. When done well, it provides a focus on the outcome that steers us towards success. BDD allows us to adopt an acceptance testing driven approach, based on executable specifications that steer our TDD efforts and allow us to create great software that is organised on meeting the real needs of our users, but it doesn’t always look like that.
In this episode, Dave Farley, author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering, describes what BDD looks like at its best, and 5 mistakes that teams commonly make when trying to adopt it. BDD is a lot more than writing specifications in SpecFlow or Cucumber.
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🔗 LINKS:
John Ferguson Smart “Twelve BDD Antipatterns - stories from the trenches about how NOT to do BDD” ➡️ https://youtu.be/COT9yHpJPc4
SpecFlow - Learn BDD ➡️ https://specflow.org/learn/bdd/
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📚 BOOKS:
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