BDD in Action

Part 3. How do I build it? Coding the BDD way

In part 2 you learned about the importance of conversation and collaboration in the BDD process, and that you need to work together to define acceptance criteria in a clear and unambiguous format that can be automated using tools such as Cucumber, JBehave, or SpecFlow. In part 3, we’ll look under the hood and see how you can do this automation. Whereas part 2 should be understood by the whole team, part 3 gets a bit more technical and will be of more interest to testers and developers.

As with any code base, the maintenance of automated acceptance tests can be costly if they’re not written well from the onset. In chapter 7, you’ll learn how to structure and organize your automated acceptance criteria ...