Behaviour Driven Development training course

Introduction

•    BDD - Key features
•    Origin of BDD
•    BDD Practices
•    Agile BDD
•    Agile Manifesto and BDD
•    Focus on WHAT a system should do
•    Providing better readability and visibility.
•    Does the software meet customer expectations?

Discovering User Stories

•    Quick introduction to User Story Mapping
•    Crafting INVEST User Stories
•    Defining SMART Acceptance Criteria

Specifying Scenarios

•    Importance of Scenarios
•    Effective Collaboration techniques to flush out valid scenarios
•    Documenting scenarios
•    Best practices for writing meaningful scenarios

Test Driven Development

•    Why Testing?
•    Challenges with Test-Last Approach
•    Test-First Approach
•    Red-Green-Refactor Cycle
•    TDD Process Steps
•    Advantages of TDD
•    Disadvantages of TDD
•    Misconceptions about TDD
•    Acceptance TDD
•    TDD vs BDD

TDD in a BDD Way

•    Story and Scenarios
•    Development Cycle

Specifications by Example

•    Specification by Example – Overview
•    Use of SbE
•    Advantages of SbE
•    Applications of SbE
•    SbE and Acceptance Testing
•    SbE - A Set of Process Patterns
•    Collaborative Specification
•    Illustrating Specification using Examples
•    Refining the Specification
•    Automating Examples
•    Validating Frequently
•    Living Documentation
•    Anti-patterns
•    Solution to the Problems - Quality
•    Tools

Tools

•    Cucumber
•    SpecFlow
•    Lettuce

BDD and Cucumber

•    Typical Cucumber Acceptance Test
•    Working of Cucumber
•    Mapping Steps and Step Definitions

Gherkin

•    Gherkin Format and Syntax

BDD and SpecFlow

•    Feature Elements and SpecFlow
•    Multiple Scenario Steps
•    Tags
•    Scenario Outlines