Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

Google TechTalks
March 17, 2006

Dave Astels

Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over 2 decades of experience in the software field, most of that involved with object-oriented technologies and techniques. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelising, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998. Dave's experience ranges from embedded process control systems to consumer products (both consumer electronics and shrinkwrapped software) to energy trading systems. Dave is an independant software consultant specializing in the areas of agile process, programming practices,...

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• bdd
• tdd
• rspec

[dollerklause]

@summit54guida your mom!

[garphik]

Lol! testing by accessing private members... insane. Great talk!

[angryzes]

Good one! I think last version of JMock now supports this approach (Expectations, etc). Also I've found a lot of correlation between BDD and Fit/Fitness with generic fixture DSL. Absolutely way to go - not to test but to validate behavior of a system. +1

[gmvsea]

This is an excellent lecture. I hadn't heard of RSpec of BDD before. Thanks Dave!