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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.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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

  1. PART 1: FIRST STEPS
  2. Building software that makes a difference
  3. BDD—the whirlwind tour
  4. PART 2: WHAT DO I WANT? DEFINING REQUIREMENTS USING BDD
  5. Understanding the business goals: Feature Injection and related techniques
  6. Defining and illustrating features
  7. From examples to executable specifications
  8. Automating the scenarios
  9. PART 3: HOW DO I BUILD IT? CODING THE BDD WAY
  10. From executable specifications to rock-solid automated acceptance tests
  11. Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer
  12. Automating acceptance criteria for non-UI requirements
  13. BDD and unit testing
  14. PART 4: TAKING BDD FURTHER
  15. Living Documentation: reporting and project management
  16. BDD in the build process
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161729165X
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John is an international speaker, consultant, author and trainer well known in the Agile community for his many books, articles and presentations, particularly in areas such as BDD, TDD, test automation, software craftsmanship and team collaboration.

John helps organisations and teams around the world deliver better software sooner through more effective collaboration and communication techniques, and through better technical practices.

John is the author of the best-selling BDD in Action, as well as Jenkins: The Definitive Guide and Java Power Tools.

Very active in the Open Source community, John also leads development on the innovative Serenity BDD test automation library, described as the "best opensource selenium webdriver framework".

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James Lynch
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionized How I Think About Unit Testing
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016
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I'm a pretty experienced programmer, and lately I've been doing a lot of AngularJS development. Before reading this book, I was a zealous advocate of automated testing with Jasmine and Protractor. After reading this book I've learned that there is another type of automated testing you can throw into the mix- a "high-level test" written in gherkin that is also executed via command line (cucumber.js or yadda for javascript programs). At first I thought, "Jasmine is a "BDD" syntax. Isn't that good enough?", and by the end of this book Smart convinced me that, NO, it's not good enough. Having high-level executable tests 1) makes the tests accessible to all team members (not just the programmers), 2) Can be a single source of truth for code completed and planning, 3) generates "living documentation, and 4) makes your specs more "business value-focused' instead of "checking that my functions work-focused". The awesome thing is that through step functions these high level tests are actually mapped to the good ole' unit tests I've always loved.

The one thing I didn't like about this book is that it tries to please everyone. It has the most examples from Java. It also has some from python, ruby, and JavaScript. In some ways I would have rather read a BDD book on only JavaScript, but I still give this book 5 starts because of the new way it has inspired me to approach unit testing and just developing software in general.
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Jason Humphries
5.0 out of 5 stars The BDD Manual
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
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As he pretty much alludes to in his Foreward, if Dan North wrote a book on BDD, he would pretty much have written this one. This book speaks to product owners, analysts, developers and testers. As such it's been widely shared, referenced and distributed at my various work placements as an Agile Coach. Even if you don't take BDD to the point where you are running executable tests as part of an automated build process, the earlier stages of examples, conversation and scenarios is enough to get a team to completely revise and improve its approach to its work. Heavily and thoroughly recommended.
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R. McGowan
5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive book for Behavior Driven Development
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016
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We're looking at adopting BDD for our dev team. I was extremely impressed with how thorough yet readable this book is. I was able to give it to my designers to learn how to write requirements in Gherkin format and then turn around and give it to my developers to get practical examples of how to test at the behavior level. It's well organized and thorough.
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Zhuping Hu
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020
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Fundamentally changed how I approach software engineering.
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D. Suarez
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Written BDD
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2015
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Well written but being a Java developer I would preferred all java solution like Jbehave instead of cucumber and other non java BDD tools. Nevertheless a Java developer will still gain.
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Marcelo Olivas
4.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to behavior-driven development
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014
There are four things that struck me about this book:

1- Don't write unit tests, write low-level specifications
2 - Favor outside-in development
3 - Learned about Spock framework
4 - There is a difference between a story and a feature

I used RSpect before but without a clear understanding of BDD, so I wrote unit tests (test scripts) rather than low-level specifications. The book explains why BDD is important along with details steps and examples. BDD is when we write behavior and specification that then drive the software. One of the key goals of BDD is to ensure that everyone has a clear understanding of what the project is trying to deliver, and of the underlying business objective of the problem. BDD is TDD but with better guidelines or even total new approach to developing. This is why wording and semantics are important: the tests need to clearly explains the business behavior they're demonstrating. It encourages people to write tests in terms of the expectations of the program's behavior in a given set of circumstances.

As the book Specification by Example mentioned, instead of waiting for specifications to be expressed precisely for the first time in the implementation, successful teams illustrate specifications using examples. The team works with the business user or domain experts to identify key examples that describes the functionality. During this process, developers and testers often suggest additional examples that illustrate the edge cases or address areas of the system that are particular problematic. This flushes out functional gaps and inconsistencies and ensure that everyone involved has a share understanding of what needs to be delivered, avoid rework that results from misinterpretation and translation.

Besides understanding the difference of unit tests and specifications, the book also talks about the difference of features vs. user stores. They are NOT the same. A feature is a functionality that you deliver to the end users or to the other stakeholders to support a capability that they need in order to achieve their business goals. A user story is a planning tool that helps you flesh out details of what you need to deliver for a particular feature. You can have features without having stories. Is a matter of fact, a good practice is to summarize the "Given When" sections of the scenario in the title and avoid including any expected outcomes. Because scenarios are based on real business examples, the context and events are usually stable, but the expected outcome may change as the organization changes and evolves the way it does business.

Besides the language syntax, I discovered the Spock framework. It lets you write concise and descriptive tests with less boiler plate code than would be needed using java. The syntax encourages people to write tests in terms of your expectations of the program's behaviors in a given set of circumstances.
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Alireza
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book
Reviewed in Canada on October 13, 2021
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I love this book. It explains BDD in a very understandable way. I never get tired continue reading it, it was consistenly enjoyable read until the last chapter.
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Víctor
5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory reading for software engineers, QA engineers and business analysts
Reviewed in Spain on March 25, 2024
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There is always a good book for every well known approach in software engineering. For BDD, this is the one.
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Skiamakhos
5.0 out of 5 stars Good summary of BDD
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2021
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We use BDD at work, and my son recently completed his computer science A-level, with a project that was technically incomplete. I've been trying to persuade him to adopt modern software engineering standards and tools, like using git, and defining unit and system tests in his code, doing test first development. I'm kinda amazed they don't teach this in school & they have kids who think it's a good idea to code by the seat of their pants so to speak. If you use a good code repository, do test first & have your tests describe the behaviour of your code, you eliminate a great deal of project risk. Hopefully this will convince him before his university course starts, to start using sensible tools and techniques.
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Itamar
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente Livro
Reviewed in Brazil on February 23, 2018
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Estou bastante satisfeito com essa aquisição. Este livro realmente servirá como fonte de conhecimento e acrescentará bastante na minha carreira.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent ouvrage pour comprendre la philosophie du Behavior Driven Development
Reviewed in France on December 22, 2018
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Ma société a acquis ce livre pour nous aider à étendre notre connaissance du BDD. Le livre traite de l'"approche BDD" à tous les niveaux, depuis la définition des besoins jusqu'à l'écriture des tests unitaires. L'ouvrage est accessible à tous, extrêmement bien écrit et inclue de nombreux exemples concrets pour mettre les idées en pratique, faisant usage de plusieurs frameworks BDD connus par le milieu.
En toute franchise, je recommande chaleureusement l'ouvrage à tous ceux qui veulent fournir des produits applicatifs de qualité, qui répondent vraiment aux besoin des clients.
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