BDD

BDD is an extension of TDD that aims to enable deeper collaboration between engineers, domain experts, and quality assurance engineers (if your company employs them). A diagram of how this works with TDD is shown here.

Figure 8.6 – BDD as an extension of TDD

The goal of BDD is to provide a higher level of abstraction from code through a domain-specific language (often referred to as a DSL) that can become executable tests. Two popular frameworks for writing BDD tests is the use of Gherkin (https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/) and Cucumber (https://cucumber.io)

Gherkin defines a set of keywords and a language specification. Cucumber reads this text and validates that the software works as expected. For example, the following is a valid Cucumber test:

Feature: checkout Integration
Scenario: Successfully Capture a payment
Given I am a customer
When I purchase a cookie for 50 cents.
Then my card should be charged 50 cents and an e-mail...