2. AMIR BARYLKO
REAL WORLD
BDD DEVELOPMENT
PRAIRIE DEV CON
REGINA 2010
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3. WHO AM I?
• Architect
• Developer
• Mentor
• Great cook
• The one who’s entertaining you for the next hour!
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4. BDD INTRO
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5. WHY TRADITIONAL
PROJECTS FAIL?
• Delivering late or over budget
• Delivering the wrong thing
• Unstable in production
• Costly to maintain
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6. BDD PRINCIPLES
• Behaviour Driven development is about implementing an
application by describing its behaviour from the perspective of
the stakeholder
• Enough is Enough
• Deliver stakeholder value
• It’s all behaviour
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7. OUTSIDE IN APPROACH
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8. GHERKIN DSL
• Business readable DSL
• Flush out requirements
• Documentation
• Automated testing
• Used by Cucumber,
SpecFlow, jBehave
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9. BDD DEMO
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10. ADD MOVIE FEATURE
• Feature: Addition
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In order to make my library grow
•
As a registered user
•
I want to add movies to the library
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Scenario: Add a movie
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Given I'm on the home page
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When I follow Add Media
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And I enter Young Frankestein in the title
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And I click Submit
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Then I should see Young Frankestein in the listing
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11. QUESTIONS?
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12. RESOURCES
• Contact me: amir@barylko.com, @abarylko
• Download: http://www.orthocoders.com/prairiedevcon
• Books: The rSpec book
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13. RESOURCES II
• SpecFLow: http://www.specflow.org
• Gallio & MbUnit: http://www.gallio.org
• MavenThought Testing: http://maventcommons.codeplex.com
• Rhino Mocks: http://www.ayende.com
• Watin: http://watin.sourceforge.net
• ASP .NET MVC: http://www.asp.net/mvc
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14. RESOURCES III
• NUnit: http://www.nunit.org
• SharpTestEx: http://sharptestex.codeplex.com
• NHaml: http://code.google.com/p/nhaml
• Binsor: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/10/25/
Binsor-2.0.aspx
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