Effective BDD using Cucumber

Behavior-driven development (BDD) has evolved out of agile practices and is designed to make Test-driven development (TDD) more accessible and effective for teams new to agile software delivery. In recent years, BDD has grown to encompass the broader picture of agile analysis, automated acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Cucumber has been one of the popular frameworks for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). We will explore the power of Cucumber on the and pragmatic ways to kick start your BDD and testing efforts with Cucumber.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) has evolved out of agile practices and is designed to make Test-driven development (TDD) more accessible and effective for teams new to agile software delivery. In recent years, BDD has grown to encompass the broader picture of agile analysis, automated acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) . Cucumber has been one of the popular frameworks for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) in the Ruby community. Cucumber-JVM is now available as a pure-Java implementation that now brings that same functionality to popular JVM languages Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Rhino, Jython and JRuby. We will explore the power of Cucumber on the and pragmatic ways to kick start your BDD and testing efforts with Cucumber.

About Andy Painter

Andy Painter is the Co-Founder of Institute Success and Institute Agility. Institute Success focuses on helping leaders become an Engaged Company™ by developing their leaders and teams. Institute Agility focuses on helping organizations ignite the spirit of agility in one heart, one team, one organization at a time.

Andy has over 25 years of software development experience as a developer, architect, tester, manager and executive. Over the two decades, Andy has coupled deep technology experience with Agile practices to create teams and environments that are hyper-productive. Over the last decade, Andy has added a focus of developing leaders and organizations to unlock their potential to achieve new levels of success. Andy helps and inspires leaders to take a people-first approach to both leadership and agility.

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