Over the last two months I've thought endless times about starting a series of posts on Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Starting sometimes late last year I began reading up on BDD and trying to wrap my head around what it was, how it was different then TDD, and why I should care. I started to hear a quiet buzz from a number of people in the community regarding BDD, so I figured at the very least I should give it a look. Right around this time Brian Donahue was rounding up speakers for the Philly .NET Code Camp. To make a long story short Brian and I decided to do a joint presentation on BDD.
As I prepared for our presentation I read as much material as I could online about BDD. Some of the sources of information that stuck in my head include:
While I think I've gotten much closer to understanding what BDD is about, I think there is still a good bit of discussion that needs to happen in the respective communities that are looking to adopt BDD. Although I've been too busy lately to follow any of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, I do drop in from time to time to see what I've been missing. It seems as though a nice conversation is developing in the altdotnet mailing list regarding BDD Issues. Additionally, a Google Group on Behavior Driven Development has been created which will hopefully provide the same kind of community for BDD as we have for TDD, DDD, and all our other double D topics.
In an attempt to further form my thinking on BDD I'm going to be putting my thoughts down on "paper" (aka this blog) in the coming weeks and months.