BDD in Action

Preface

When I finally sat down to write about the origins of this book, I realized that my involvement with Behavior-Driven Development goes back much further than I thought.

My first foray into the world of executable specifications was in 2001, though at the time, I didn’t know it by that name. In fact, at the time, I didn’t know it had a name. I was working on a project to write a pricing algorithm for an insurance company. Along with a hefty 200-page Word document, the client kindly provided us with an Excel spreadsheet containing 6,000 or so rows of sample data that he used to check pricing changes. It was an afterthought: the idea was that we might find the spreadsheet handy to check our pricing application manually. I found it more ...