May 1, 2024
Updated June 21, 2025
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An Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology that emphasizes collaboration between developers, quality assurance (QA) professionals, and business stakeholders. At its core, BDD focuses on defining an application's behavior from the user's perspective using natural language. This approach aims to create a shared understanding of how the software should function before and during its development, ensuring that the final product aligns closely with business needs and user expectations.
Working in a BDD environment can be engaging due to its highly collaborative nature; it encourages constant communication and shared ownership of the product's quality. The process of translating business requirements into concrete, testable examples using a common language can be intellectually stimulating. Furthermore, seeing these examples directly drive the development and automated testing process provides a clear and satisfying link between requirements and implemented software.
What is Behavior-Driven Development?
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Reading list
We've selected eight books
that we think will supplement your
learning. Use these to
develop background knowledge, enrich your coursework, and gain a
deeper understanding of the topics covered in
BDD.
This practical guide covers the entire software lifecycle from requirements gathering to testing and deployment, using BDD techniques.
Provides a hands-on guide to using Cucumber, a popular BDD tool, to implement BDD in software projects.
Provides a comprehensive guide to using Serenity, a popular BDD framework, to implement BDD in software projects.
Provides a practical guide to using BDD in software projects, with a focus on using it to improve the quality of software.
Provides a practical approach to BDD, with a focus on using it to improve communication and collaboration between developers and business stakeholders.
This concise guide provides a quick reference to the key concepts and practices of BDD, with examples in Java.
Provides a practical guide to using BDD in C++ software projects, with a focus on using it to improve the quality of C++ code.
This beginner-friendly guide provides a step-by-step approach to learning and using BDD in software projects.
For more information about how these books relate to this course, visit:
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