Overview of Behaviour Driven Development

The BDD is a requirements/testing specification approach (rather than a development methodology, as it's originator Dan North sells it). But it's a cool one.

• Prezi presentation
• Small home-brewn example

Interrelated confluent SourcesOfBDD?

• reqts spec means - use case scenario template (with pre-/post-conditions), user stories (with tests on the flip side of the card)
• test-driven development and xUnit frameworks automation
• acceptance test driven development
• DSLs? and self-documenting code (remember Knuth)

I see the Gherkin syntax as a culmination of these, see ExamplesOfBDD. Which of the ToolsForBDD use it?

Tips and hints

JBehaveInEclipse howto, based on my experiments

Tutorials: there aren't many, it seems

• JBehave on GitHub the "Java Spring" part (not the groovy etc parts)
• How to configure JBehave blog post

Resources

Meta

• diigo bookmarks on BDD
• slideshare search

Interesting slides

• java/jbehave
• php/symphony but great overall intro
• php/behat with good intro