Adopting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for Automated Software Testing

Adopting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for Automated Software Testing

In today’s growing world of Agile the focus is on to deliver a better end user product with the user stories meeting the acceptance criteria within the estimated time frames; these require automated test cases for the validation and verification of implemented user stories than even before. The pitfall with the legacy approach is that it is oriented to ensure that the functionality implemented is right rather than implementing the right functionality. This challenge leads to Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for automated software testing, in which focus shifts to automate test cases depending on the required behavior of the application.

BDD is quite similar to Test Driven Development (TDD) in many ways, but it has several other potential benefits over TDD. Unlike TDD, it tries to focus more towards system behaviors than on the implementation code. One of the most crucial benefits of this approach is that behaviors change less often than implementation code. BDD evolved to overcome the shortcomings in TDD, which is also an Agile approach for writing automated test cases for software test automation. BDD suggests taking an "outside in" approach to development. This approach suggests that developers and testers think about the software under development from the outside-in, which in-turn drives the interfaces between collaborating objects that make up the software. What this means is firstly, we write a test case to make sure that the behavior of the application is correct with respect to a specific scenario.

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Author :  Knowledge Sharing Team

Knowledge Sharing Team at QA InfoTech is responsible for research on new tools & technologies for effective Software QA Testing services across all industry verticals. QA InfoTech (an ISO 9001:2008 & CMMI III certified) is one of the leading Software Testing Companies with five testing “Centers of Excellence” in the United States and India. It offers end to end software testing services.