def test = new BDDMadeEasy(Selenium,EasyB,Groovy)

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Java ?

Groovy ?

BDD ?

EasyB ?

Agenda

BDD

In action

Interruptions...solicited

What is BDD ?

A little bit of historyDan North

“How will the software behave under specific conditions ?”

Traditional documents

Requirement Specs

Functional Specs

Stories

Use Cases

Flow Charts

Many more…

The problem…

“How should the software behave under specific conditions ?”

BDD offers…A template for defining behavior

The templatePre-conditions

Steps

Expected behavior

An exampleGiven some precondition

When some action by the actor

Then some testable outcome is achieved

Another ExampleGiven some preconditionAnd some other preconditionWhen some action by the actorAnd some other actionAnd yet another actionThen some testable outcome is achievedAnd something else we can check happens too

easyB Scriptdescription "As simple as it gets"

scenario "Testing easyB setup",{

given "there is some precondition"

when "some steps are performed"

then "result can be validated"

}

Executable Requirements

What’s the big deal ?

Define the behavior of the software

The Three AmigosProduct Owner\BA

Developer

Tester

Old way-multiple documents

New way- singluar document

Collaboration

Business friendly

testing report

Tractability matrix

on steroids

Technologies

Groovy

easyB

Selenium

Groovy

Language for the JVM

Compiles to java byte-code

Excellent compatibility with Java

Syntax similar to Java

Wrap up

So what’s great about BDD- one more time ?

Alternate technologies Cucumber Jbehave Cuke4Duke RSPec

Questions ?

Follow-up

dannorth.net

easyB.org

groovy.codehaus.org

http://goo.gl/eQoqU (Bookmarks on Delicious)

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