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Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Behavior Driven Development (or BDD) focused on the language and interactions used in the process of software development. BDD encourages collaboration between developers and non-technical or business participants in a software project. This allows the developers to focus on why the code should be created, rather than the technical details, and minimizes translation between the technical language in which the code is written and the domain language spoken by the business, users, stakeholders, project management etc. BDD is an Agile software development technique.

Strength

BDD increases feedback and communication in a software development. Behavior-driven developers use both their native language and the language of Domain Driven Design to describe the purpose and benefit of their code.

References

TDD

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

[2] http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

[3] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment

BDD

[4] http://behaviour-driven.org/Introduction

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development

[6] http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0805061