Behavior-driven development
BDD is the addition of business concerns to the technical concerns more typical of TDD. This came about as people became more experienced with TDD. They started noticing some patterns in the challenges that they were facing. One especially influential person, Dan North, proposed some specific language and structure to ease some of these issues. The following are some of the issues he noticed:
- People had a hard time understanding what they should test next.
- Deciding what to name a test could be difficult.
- How much to test in a single test always seemed arbitrary.
Now that we have some context, we can define what exactly BDD is. Simply put, it's about writing our tests in such a way that they will tell us the kind of behavior ...
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