"Dean Michael Berris" <mikhailberis@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Dave!
On 9/14/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Watching the video about 25% through, so far I don't get what he's talking about or why BDD is different from what I do anyway or how it can benefit me.
It's really just a "clarification" of Test Driven Development. The gist is as follows:
J.B. Rainsberger sums it up: http://www.jbrains.ca/postings/read/38 Fundamentally, Behaviour-driven development is Test-driven development practiced correctly, though frameworks tend to have different naming conventions. As JB points out, the wording is key --- some people associate specific meanings with the word "test", which aren't what TDD is about, and using "behaviour specification" instead gets around that. I have experimented with various syntaxes in C++, such as CHECK(some_value, must_be > 2 and must_be < 42); CHECK(some_container, must_contain(3)); In the end, I've always come back to our trusty friend: ASSERT. ASSERT_GREATER_THAN(some_value,2); ASSERT_LESS_THAN(some_value,42); ASSERT_NOT_EQUALS(std::count(some_container.begin(),some_container.end(),3),0); Anthony -- Anthony Williams Software Developer Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk