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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and

Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI-CD)
The goal of testing is to increase confidence of stakeholders through evidence
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Different levels of Testing

• Unit Tests focuses on testing a specific unit or component, such as a class method.
It confirms that the function is built right.

• Integration Tests focuses on testing multiple “Units” together as a group.

• System Tests focuses on testing the complete software or application as a whole.

• Acceptance Tests are the final level of testing which verifies whether the system’s
functionality matches the specification. It confirms whether we have built the
right thing.

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Overview of BDD

• The Agile methodology implements testing and validation as an ongoing process, via the
“as a user” approach. BDD using the same approach, makes it the most suitable practice
within Agile.

• BDD focuses on the acceptance criteria from the inception by defining how each feature
of the application should behave from the end user’s perspective.

• BDD enables collaboration across all stake holders: Customer, Dev & QA

• In BDD, the Scenarios are created using DSL (Domain Specific Language) and the Code is
written to support the target behavior

• BDD results into faster user acceptance cycles leading to faster deployments

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More insights

BDD is an abstraction of TDD (Test Driven Development) .They both essentially follow the same
practices, but, BDD focuses more on the behavior of the application, rather than implementation,
using a language where all stakeholders can participate and collaborate.

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A typical Agile and BDD based workflow

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TDD vs BDD

TDD BDD
( Test Driven Development ) ( Behavior Driven Development )

Focuses on the developer’s opinion on how Focuses on the user’s opinion on how they
functions of the software should work. It is want the application to behave. It is basically
basically a programmer’s view. a customer’s view.

A Low level approach As a user approach

Verifies whether the implementation of the Verifies whether the application behaves the
functionalities are correct way user wants it to behave

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Benefits of BDD for Program and Release management

• Better collaboration and communication within all stake holders

• Comprehensible and useable without programming expertise

• The Agile approach has lead to visibly better design and results

• Proven platform for Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI-CD)

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The Gherkin language

• The Gherkin language is the Core of any BDD Framework

• It is a Domain Specific, Business Readable language

• Enables all stakeholders to understand the software without a deep technical

understanding of the implementation

• In the BDD world, the Test Cases are broken down into the Gherkin Scenarios

• The Scenarios are then implemented using the Gherkin’s G-W-T construct 

ü Given – there is some context

ü When – some action occurs
ü Then – some result is expected

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BDD Framework

Rebaca has extensive experience in the following BDD frameworks.

Cucumber ( https://cucumber.io/ )

•   Available in Java, Ruby, JavaScript platforms

•   Most popular BDD framework
•   Much more vibrant community
•   Better reporting support

Behave ( http://pythonhosted.org/behave/ )

•   Available in Python platform

JBehave ( http://jbehave.org/ )

•   Available in Java platform

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Sample BDD feature file in action

Feature name, Scenario name
and Tags
Feature : SIP Single Call with RTP
@ sip-single-call-with-rtp
Scenario : End to end SIP call setup with RTP data transfer
DSL grammar to set the
context, ie. Setup connection
Given all configured endpoints for SIP are connected successfully

Example SIP DSL grammar

When | run SIP INVITE call-flows for SERVER using uas_invite.xml for 1 users configured
in user.csv at ABOT

When | run SIP INVITE call-flows for CLIENT using uac_invite.xml for 1 users configured Example SIP DSL grammar
in user.csv at ABOT

When | run the SSH command “cat output file | grep ‘Successful call’ | awk ‘{print $1,$2,$6}’” at ABOT
Then I verify the presence of the following values in the SIP response:
| String | occurrence |
Example SIP and SSH DSL grammar to
| Successful call 1 | PRESENT |
execute command and validate output

When | run the SSH command “cat output file | grep ‘RTP pckts sent’ | awk ‘{print $1,$3,$4,$5}’” at ABOT
Then I verify the presence of the following values in the SSH response:
| String | occurrence |
| 236 RTP pckts sent | PRESENT | Example SSH DSL grammar to execute
command and perform validation

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How BDD helps in Continuous Integration and Delivery

Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI-CD) enables the features to be integrated, tested and
deployed into Production on an ongoing basis.

It is possible to do CI-CD without BDD, but with the BDD practices, the benefits are evidently better.

Agile and BDD work together to

BDD ensures that the
slice the target features into small
features are built using the
shippable user stories and make
first time right formula
incremental releases

BDD’s “as a user”

BDD Provides clear
testing practice yield
specifications in an
results with better
executable form
quality
Successful
CI-CD

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Continuous Integration (CI) workflow

Source Automated
Plan Develop Build Reports
Control Test

Continuous Integration

• The developer creates/refactors the code and unit tests it

• The code is committed into the source control (SVN)
• The build is triggered in the build server (Jenkins) on demand/periodically
• The test beds are upgraded with the new build (CI Server – Jenkins)
• Automated Tests (Sanity, Regression, System) are triggered using a BDD based framework
• Comprehensive drill down reports are published and all stakeholders are notified

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Continuous Delivery (CD) workflow

Customer
CI Release Deploy Staging Release UAT Production
Candidate
Continuous Delivery

• CI-CD provides Customer Release Candidate in an on-going basis

• CI-CD enables instant notification for software, environmental, deployment & operational
issues that would have otherwise been identified much late in the lifecycle causing delays

• BDD + CI-CD enables faster User Acceptance and Production release

Rebaca has extensive experience in building a BDD powered framework to implement CI-CD in the
software development life cycle providing Automation at each step to create the environment (handle
orchestration), deploy the software,perform all configurations, run test suites, generate reports,
collect artifacts and notify all stakeholders. 

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