Behavior Driven Development vs Unit Testing
TDD vs BDD? BDD vs Unit Tests? When should you write a BDD specification and when a Unit Test? Behaviour Driven Development is an effective way to capture a users intent: Test Driven Development is great to check that your code is good, but what if they test the same things? How do you optimise your testing?
In this episode Dave Farley describes his preferred testing strategy while meeting a challenge set by his friend Gojko Adzic on the Specflow website here: https://bit.ly/3n0dCe7
In this challenge Gojko poses the question when should you write Unit tests and when BDD tests? For Continuous Delivery the real answer is “All the *&^%$£ Time”. If we want to take a software engineering approach to solving problems we need to work experimentally and verify our results - through automated tests.
You can read more about Gojko’s regular #GivenWhenThenWithStyle Challenges here: https://bit.ly/2VSwXls
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SUGGESTED READING:
Specification By Example, by Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/2TlfYaH
Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories - Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/3jXM481
Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects, Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gs3PL8
Humans vs Computers, Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/3oBvSLc
Running Serverless: Introduction to AWS Lambda and the Serverless Application Model, Gojko Adzic ➡️ https://amzn.to/2VYrBoB
