The BDD Process and

Workflow

Marko Vajs
Software Development Engineer in Test
Phases of BDD

Discovery

Automation Formulation
Discovery of User Stories
Discovery of User Stories

Requires initial requirements to be present

Requires all team members with different
technical backgrounds and a business
representative
The goal is to generate just enough examples
to describe the behavior of a system
Example mapping can be used to structure
and ease this process
Example Mapping

User
Story

Rule 1

Rule 4

Rule 2

Rule 5

Rule 3
Example Mapping

User
Question
Story

Rule 2 Rule 3 Question

Rule 1 Rule 4 Rule 5

Example
Example Example Example Example

Example
Example
Formulation of Scenarios
Formulation of Scenarios
Process of turning a shared understanding of how a system should behave into a
business readable specification.

Collaboration Supported Format

To ensure that the language used in That is understood by a test
scenarios will convey the same automation software
meaning to all parties
Gherkin
Syntax designed to be a non-technical and human-readable way of describing
use cases in software.

Feature: Adding Items to the Shopping Cart

The shopping cart contains items ready to be purchased by a user

Scenario: Adding a single item to the shopping cart

Given a user is on the product page

When the user clicks the "Add to Cart" button for the item "Phone
Charger"

Then the item "Phone Charger" should be added to the shopping cart

And the shopping cart's total items count should increase by 1

Transforming Scenarios into Executable
Specifications
 The Behavior-driven Development Process
Scenarios Tests
Examples

Acceptance
Criteria
Refinement
// lines from the Java class

@Given("a user is on the product page")

public void userIsOnProductPageStep() {

@When("the user clicks the \"Add to Cart\" button for the item \"Phone Charger\"")
public void userClicksAddToCartButtonStep() {

// lines from the feature file

Given a user is on the product page

When the user clicks the "Add to Cart" button for the item "Phone Charger"

…
The Dual Purpose of Automated Scenarios

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