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description: Summary BDD in Action teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process. First you'll learn how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF Kindle and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology You can't write good software if you don't understand what it's supposed to do. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) encourages teams to use conversation and concrete examples to build up a shared understanding of how an application should work and which features really matter. With an emerging body of best practices and sophisticated new tools that assist in requirement analysis and test automation BDD has become a hot mainstream practice. About the Book BDD in Action teaches you BDD principles and practices and shows you how to integrate them into your existing development process no matter what language you use. First you'll apply BDD to requirements analysis so you can focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code. No prior experience with BDD is required. What's Inside About the Author John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in BDD automated testing and software lifecycle development optimization. Table of Contents
language: English
title: BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle
publisher: Manning Publications