ACCEPTANCE TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) is a development methodology based on communication between the business customers, the developers, and the testers.ATDD encompasses many of the same practices as Specification by Example,Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Example-Driven Development (EDD),and Story Test-Driven Development (SDD).All these processes aid developers and testers in understanding the customer’s needs prior to implementation and allow customers to be able to converse in their own domain language

BEHAVIOR DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

In software engineering, behavior-driven development (abbreviated BDD) is a software development process based on test-driven development (TDD). Behavior-driven development combines the general techniques and principles of TDD with ideas from domain-driven design and object-oriented analysis and design to provide software development and management teams with shared tools and a shared process to collaborate on software development.

Cucumber is a very popular BDD tool. This website will use Cucumber as the framework both for expressing application behavior and also as a testing framework wherever applicable. As we know the choice of a framework really depends on the programming language we choose and what other frameworks exist in the market. But after working with Java, Ruby and .NET, JS stacks for a while, we have cucumber like frameworks in each and every stack.

TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Kent Beck, who is credited with having developed or ‘rediscovered’ the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence.