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Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) are software development methodologies that emphasize writing tests before code. TDD focuses on writing unit tests at a low code level, while BDD tests at a higher functionality level to ensure acceptance criteria are met. Both approaches encourage better design, safer refactoring and faster debugging compared to traditional development approaches. BDD pays more attention to language in test names and user stories, while TDD focuses more on programming ability. Together, TDD and BDD aim to make testing and development more quality-focused.

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Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) are software development methodologies that emphasize writing tests before code. TDD focuses on writing unit tests at a low code level, while BDD tests at a higher functionality level to ensure acceptance criteria are met. Both approaches encourage better design, safer refactoring and faster debugging compared to traditional development approaches. BDD pays more attention to language in test names and user stories, while TDD focuses more on programming ability. Together, TDD and BDD aim to make testing and development more quality-focused.

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Test Driven Development

vs
Behavior Driven
Development
Presenters:
Muhammad Rizwan, Aksam Ali
• Traditional Development Challenges
• What is TDD
• TDD cycle
Agenda • Advantage of TDD
• What is BDD?
• How it works?
• Example of BDD

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Traditional
Development
Flow
Traditional
Development
Challenges
Cost of change vs
Size of code
Problems with Unit Test at the
end
• Testing Does not give direct feedback to design
and programming
• Most of the times, after implementing the code
Unit Tests are omitted.
• Writing tests after developing code often results
in "happy path" testing
Test Driven Development
Test Driven Development

• A technique that guides software development by


writing tests.

• TDD is about Design

• Developers write Unit Tests not Tester and then code.


TDD Mantra
Laws of TDD
• You are not allowed to write a production code
unless it is to make a failing unit test pass.
• You are not allowed to write any more of unit
test than is sufficient to fail
• You are not allowed to write any more
production code than is sufficient to pass one
unit test
Advantages of TDD

• Better Design

• Safer Refactoring

• Better Code Coverage

• Faster Debugging

• Self-Documenting Tests
Role of QA in TDD

• Help developers Identify Edge cases

• Usability Testing
When TDD is not a good fit

• When the requirement is not clear enough


DEMO
Behavior Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development

• Development paradigm that makes use of a simple, domain-


specific scripting language.

• Converting structured natural language statements into executable


tests.
BDD - Main Idea

• BDD focuses on:


1. Where to start in the process
2. What to test and what not to test
3. How much to test in one go
4. What to call the tests
5. How to understand why a test fails
BDD - Main Idea

• BDD suggests that unit test names be whole sentences


starting with a conditional verb ("should" in English for
example) and should be written in order of business value.

• Acceptance tests should be written using the standard


agile framework of a user story: "As a [role] I want
[feature] so that [benefit]". Acceptance criteria should be
written in terms of scenarios and implemented as
classes: Given [initial context], when [event occurs], then
[ensure some outcomes].
BDD - FORMAT

• BDD does not have any formal requirements for


exactly how these user stories must be written down

• But it does insist that each team using BDD come up


with a simple, standardized format for writing down
the user stories which includes the elements listed
above.
In a nutshell
DEMO
Comparative Analysis of TDD
and BDD
Behavior Driven Development Test Driven Development

Focus on the testing the app Focus is on the lower level of the
functionality and whether it meets code, testing on a per class basis
the acceptance criteria or not

Makes it easier to think what is TDD is complemented by BDD as


required and makes it easy to think knowing the major functionality helps
what low level functionality will be writing the unit tests
required

BDD pays extra attention to language TDD pays extra attention to


programming ability
Concluding Remarks

• Traditional development cycle was not encouraged due


to risk factors attached to it

• In response, came the TDD and BDD methodologies in


agile to make testing and development efforts more
fruitful and quality focused
Questions Answers
What’s on your Mind?

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