Blast from the past: BDD Lessons Learned

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Recently I presented a talk with my colleague Ant on some lessons learned around working with BDD.

The podcast is here



A discussion on what can cause some issues when implementing BDD taken from personal experience.

Things like, in no particular order:

• Don’t rush into automation
• Don’t spend hours arguing about the correct language to use
• See what others are doing
• Write scenarios as a team
• Have the conversation
• Don’t add implementation details in scenarios
• Add tests to continuous integration process as early as possible
• Use your scenarios
• Include the SME (Subject Matter Expert)
• domain expert and customer
• Keep scenarios precise
• Use examples to reinforce the scenario
• Every scenario is negotiable and is subject to change at any time
• Your scenarios are your living documentation
• Make things visual
• Sign off scenarios
• Just do it.