Behaviour Driven Development

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Course Description

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) training course equips teams with practices, tools, and techniques to take their software development processes to the next level. This course provides a hands-on workshop to introduce BDD concepts and equip teams with practical experience in creating BDD feature files, scenarios, and complete working applications.

You will learn BDD through a series of practical exercises utilizing Cucumber, Maven, and the Eclipse IDE to gain hands-on experience with BDD..

Objectives:

•     Learn BDD basics and principles
•     Learn the Gherkin syntax
•     Build BDD scenarios to serve as acceptance criteria for stories
•     Work through hands-on labs to design, build, and test end-to-end applications utilizing BDD

Course Outline

    1. BDD Review

•     The digital disconnect
•     BDD principles
•     BDD story format
•     Ubiquitous language

    2. BDD Tooling

•     Tool overview
•     JBehave
•     Cucumber
•     Selenium
•     Tool integration

    3. Working with Gherkin Syntax

•     Given / When / Then
•     How do we know it’s a given?
•     Knowing when to say when
•     Then and only then
•     Common pitfalls
•     Putting it into practice

    4. Compound Steps

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    5. Resolving Duplicates

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    6. Patterns, Templates, Regular Expressions

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    7. Compound Step Structure

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    8. Before / After Stories

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    9. Reporting and Debugging

•     Core concept
•     Sample code
•     Seeing it in action
•     Hands-on lab

    10. Final Project

•     Pulling it all together
•     Helpful reminders
•     Hands-on final lab

Learning Path

• There are a number of options, please contact us for details.

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, if there is one available. Please check our schedule, or register your interest in joining a course in your area.
• Private onsite Team training also available, please contact us to discuss. We can customise this course to suit your business requirements.