What is Behavior-Driven Development?

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What is Behavior-Driven Development?

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Hi Toby,

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an Agile software development approach that emphasizes the expected behavior of an application from the user’s perspective. It aims to bridge the gap between business stakeholders, developers, and quality assurance (QA) professionals by focusing on:

  • Collaboration: BDD encourages everyone involved in the project to work together to define the desired behavior of the application through conversations and concrete examples.
  • Shared understanding: Instead of technical jargon, BDD uses natural language and scenarios to describe the application’s behavior, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
  • Executable specifications: The scenarios are then translated into executable tests that automatically verify if the application behaves as expected.

Read more about BDD here:

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Hi,

BDD encourages the use of specific formats for documenting requirements, such as Given-When-Then (GWT) format, which helps teams create a shared understanding of how the application should behave under various conditions.

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BDD tools, such as Cucumber, SpecFlow, and Behave, automate the testing process by translating human-readable scenarios into executable code. This allows teams to easily verify that the application meets the specified behavior