BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle

John Ferguson Smart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161729165X ISBN 13: 9781617291654

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2014

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 learn how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code.

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About the Technology

You can't write good software if you don't understand 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 should work and which features really matter. With an emerging body of best practices and sophisticated new tools that assist in requirement analysis and test automation, BDD has become 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, no matter what language you use. First, you'll apply BDD to requirements analysis so you can focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you'll 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 affect 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

PART 1: FIRST STEPS

1. Building software that makes a difference
2. BDD—the whirlwind tour

PART 2: WHAT DO I WANT? DEFINING REQUIREMENTS USING BDD

3. Understanding the business goals: Feature Injection and related techniques
4. Defining and illustrating features
5. From examples to executable specifications
6. Automating the scenarios

PART 3: HOW DO I BUILD IT? CODING THE BDD WAY

7. From executable specifications to rock-solid automated acceptance tests
8. Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer
9. Automating acceptance criteria for non-UI requirements
10. BDD and unit testing

PART 4: TAKING BDD FURTHER

11. Living Documentation: reporting and project management
12. BDD in the build process

Product Description:

DESCRIPTION Behavior-Driven Development starts with a simple idea: developers can't write good software if they don't understand what it's supposed to do. BDD is a development process that helps users design better code by writing tests that describe the behavior of an application and its underlying requirements. Done well, it helps deliver higher quality software that creates business genuine value. BDD in Action teaches the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows how to integrate it into existing development process. First it shows how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, it reveals how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, readers will apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code. RETAIL SELLING POINTS A complete guide to modern BDD practices Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle Real-World tips on introducing BDD into an organization AUDIENCE No prior experience with BDD is required. Although the principles in this book apply to any language and toolset, the examples are based in Java and use readily-available BDD tools. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY BDD is becoming increasingly popular. In addition to small, agile shops, many large clients (banks etc) are introducing BDD practices. And many languages and frameworks such as Groovy, Grails, Scala, and AngularJS use BDD as their principle testing philosophy.

About the Author:

John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in BDD, automated testing, and software life cycle development optimization.