Timeline for How can Behavior-Driven Development be a form of Testing-Driven Development/Unit Testing?
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| Aug 12, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Stanislav Bashkyrtsev | @Juan, hm.. so I give you a concrete example and you reply with a link to a general BDD overview :) | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 18:44 | comment | added | ccov77 | Refer to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development, more specifically the paragraph: "Principles of BDD" . | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 16:10 | comment | added | Stanislav Bashkyrtsev | @Juan, okay, since we're going in circles - let me ask you to show some kind of proof. Give me an example of how BDD steers the development exactly. Here is how TDD drives it: instead of thinking of large problem you split it into smaller steps and implement your classes & methods in small chunks. Now show me an exact way in which BDD drives development. | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 15:45 | comment | added | ccov77 | I did, and he speaks about testing throughout the entire article. To "drive" the development of a project using tests means that tests steer the project towards the right direction. It doesn't matter if those tests are Unit tests, focused on smaller units (like classes), or full blown acceptance tests that focus more on the behavior. The key part is that there is a test guiding the development of the project (development including requirements, coding and maintenance in this case). | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 7:16 | comment | added | Stanislav Bashkyrtsev | @Juan, BDD does not drive development. Dan North was under a lot of influence of TDD at the time and this "BDD" term was a great marketing move. But that's just it - it's a tacky (and imprecise) name. Personally I don't always follow TDD, but I always follow BDD. The latter doesn't require the former. Please read the links that I posted. | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 7:07 | comment | added | ccov77 | BDD and TDD are far from orthogonal. They have so many things in common, the most important one being the principal goal: to drive development using tests. I think BDD could be seen as a superset of TDD. | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 4:01 | history | edited | Stanislav Bashkyrtsev | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 3 characters in body |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 3:55 | history | answered | Stanislav Bashkyrtsev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |