How Behavior Driven Development works
Today it is no longer necessary to spend weeks testing a finished software for functionality. One can easily find out if the application meets the requirements using the Behavior Driven Development technique. Here, you view the software from the user’s perspective. This promotes cooperation between developers, quality managers, and the customer.
What is Behavior Driven Development?
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or also called Specification Driven Development is a technique in agile software development. The goal is to strengthen collaboration in quality management and business analysis.
As software applications become more complex, companys need more quality and test management. This makes it possible to find errors quickly. Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been known for a long time, where unit tests are developed to match the software. To include other team members and stakeholders in the design process, you can use Behavior Driven Development.
This allows to define the desired requirements by everyone in the team. Then the programmer can create the source code. This means team members can provide descriptions, which the programmer then transforms. This allows everyone to take an active part in the creation. This can avoid misunderstandings and result in an optimal final product.
BDD thus closes the gap between developers and the rest of the team by fostering collaboration and common understanding. It also works in small and fast iterations to make feedback easier. It also creates system documentation that you can automatically reconcile with the behavior of the system.
Functionality of Behavior Driven Development
The goal of BDD is to show the behavior of the software. You should consider all areas of software development and frameworks, programming languages, and tools. BDD makes exactly this possible.
There are different BDD tools like Cucumber or JBehave, which provide a structure, which is easier than learning a programming language.
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