Category Archives: bdd

C# mocks in action

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Liz

Mike and Gabriel both posted comments to show how the Cowhand example in my last post might look and evolve with different mocking frameworks. They’ve used FluentSpec and Rhino Mocks respectively. Thanks, Mike and Gabriel! It was a pleasure to … Continue reading →

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Given, when, then and examples for classes

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Liz

Some of us have taken to writing comments in our BDD classes to give us Given, When, Then at a unit level. So, if I’m writing examples for a cowhand, I might write something like this: public class CowhandTest { … Continue reading →

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Dan and I talk about BDD at Oopsla 2007

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Liz

Back last year, Vlad Gitlevich kindly made a video of Dan and I talking about BDD. We concentrated almost exclusively on the principles rather than the technology, which means the video is still very relevant. Particularly we talked about how … Continue reading →

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fail() failed…

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Liz

Antony Marcano’s written a great post on testing for exceptions in a way which makes the example much easier to read, and keeps the Given / When / Then flow intact. I like this very much, and will be doing … Continue reading →

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Four ways of handling Givens

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Liz

A Given is the context in which a feature is used When we write code, we want to know that it works. As developer, I want to know how to tell this before I even start coding, so that I … Continue reading →

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BDD for TDDers

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Liz

Anthony Bailey and I had a conversation over email about what good, experienced TDDers might get out of BDD. If you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is about, maybe this will help! Thanks, Anthony, for tidying the conversation up … Continue reading →

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JBehave 2, naming tests and developing libraries with BDD

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Liz

Peter Bell and I had a great conversation over Skype yesterday, which he’s kindly blogged. We covered test names, and also talked about how to develop libraries using BDD. Again, this is how I do things; it’s not necessarily the … Continue reading →

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Do I always write a test?

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Liz

I’ve just been reading the debate between Bob Martin and Jim Coplien on InfoQ, centred around Bob’s assertion that “nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test.” … Continue reading →

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Bug Driven Development: a danger of delivering the pretty GUIs first

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Liz

After my last post, Negin and I were quite pleased that we’d got as far as we had. So was our Business Analyst. “So, this story that was estimated at 3 days,” she said. “Can I say it’s only taken … Continue reading →

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BDD: Bug Driven Development

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Liz

Today, Negin and I paired on a brand new piece of work. “We’ll need to create this domain object,” she said, “and a database table.” “I don’t want to do that,” I said. “I’d rather fix the stuff that’s broken.” … Continue reading →

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