20161024 Agile DC 2016 Conf Behavior Driven Development Workshop

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Behavior Driven Development
Workshop
Craeg Strong
CTO, Ariel Partners
October 24, 2016
Washington, DC
© Copyright Ariel Partners 2016 *sales@arielpartners.com ((646) 467-7394

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Software Development since 1988
Large Commercial & Government Projects
Agile Coach / DevOps Engineer
Kanban Trainer / SpecFlow Trainer
Performance & Scalability Architect
Certified Ethical Hacker
New York & Washington DC Area
CTO, Ariel Partners
AKT, CSM, CSP, CSD, CSPO, PSM,
ITILv3, PMI-ACP, PMP, LeSS, SAFe
www.arielpartners.com
cstrong@arielpartners.com
@ckstrong1
Craeg Strong

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Agenda
• Context & Background
• Benefits of BDD
• Good vs Bad Gherkin Demonstration
• Bad Gherkin Team Review & Discussion
• Whirlwind Tour of Tools & Reports
• Gherkin Writing Workshop
• Group Discussion

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Supplies Needed
1. 2+ Rolls of Scotch Transparent Tape
2. 6+ Pads of Large Size Post-It Notes
3. A Dozen or more Sharpies
4. 1-2 Post-It Self-Stick Easel Pads 25” x 30.5”

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Where Does BDD Fit In?
Useful Techniques
Story Mapping
BDD: Specification By Example
Impact
Mapping
Visioning / Ideation
Workshops
GOOTB
Mockups
Wireframes
Journey
Mapping

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When Do Organizations Switch To BDD?
• New to scrum, need help with understanding how to create
useful Acceptance Test Criteria
• Converting a legacy Microsoft VB application to .NET
• Government project without enough testing, need to beef up
testing capabilities
• Mostly manual testing, spreadsheets, looking for a better way
• Automated GUI Tests Brittle, Hard To Maintain

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What Problems Can BDD Solve?
qEnsure what is to be delivered is actually required
qEnsure what is to be delivered is valuable to the business
qEnsure what is to be delivered is within the agreed scope of
functionality
qEnsure what is to be delivered is well understood by the team
ü Clearly specify the required behavior of each software component
ü in everyday common business language
ü that anyone in the team (including business stakeholders) can understand
ü And then enforce those rules via tests
How?

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Who Is Involved?
The Three Amigos
public void CalculateDiscount(Order order)
{
if (order.Customer.IsNew)
order.FinalAmount =
Math.Round(order.Total * 9/10);
}
Register as “bart_bookworm”
Go to “/catalog/search”
Enter “ISBN-0955683610”
Click “Search”
Click “Add to Cart”
Click “View Cart”
Verify “Subtotal” is “$33.75”
We would like to encourage new users to buy in our shop.
Therefore we offer 10% discount for their first order.
Analyst Developer Tester

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Specification Workshops
Given the user has not ordered yet
When the user adds a book with the price of EUR 37.5
into the shopping cart
Then the shopping cart sub-total is EUR 33.75.
We would like to encourage new users to buy in our shop.
Therefore we offer 10% discount for their first order.
Analyst Developer Tester
Gherkin

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Gherkin: The Language of BDD
Scenario
Given [Context]
And [More Context]
When (<role> does) [Action]
And [Other Action]
Then (<role> should see) [Outcome]
And [More Outcomes]
Scenarios
=
Test Cases
=
Acceptance Criteria

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Good Gherkin versus Bad Gherkin
VS.

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Bad versus Good Gherkin
Happy Path Should
be First
Boundary condition does
not match scenario
Show me, don’t tell me.
Should be an example
GUI Display Detail makes
this brittle. What if we
change it to a bar chart?
This data is already
grouped. Use the
user’s language not
technical language
More GUI Details,
not necessary
?Why
Different?

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Bad versus Good Gherkin (Printout)

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Characteristics of Good Gherkin Specifications
• Use Domain Language (Problem Space) not Technical Language
(Solution Space)
• Tangible, not Abstract
• Explicit, not Implicit
• No Extraneous information
• Human Readable, no “magic numbers”
• Avoid GUI-Specific terms (e.g. “button”, “screen”, “click”)
• Look For Reusable Phrases

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Bad Gherkin: Team One

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Bad Gherkin: Team Two

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Bad Gherkin: Team Three

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Bad Gherkin: Team Four

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BDD cuts the Gordian knot
Unit Tests As Needed
Automated Acceptance Tests
(BDD)
Automated GUI Tests
Manual Exploratory Testing

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Features Versus
User Stories
1. Manual
Entry of
Email
2.
Dropdown
4. Type-
Ahead
3. Don’t
Show My
Email

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Feature File
BDD With SpecFlow
1. Write
Feature
Step Definitions
2. Generate
Template
3. Fill In
Code

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Functional Coverage Report
q All system functions expressed as features, split into user stories
q All user stories have acceptance criteria
q Each criterion translated to an automated test using structured
English (Gherkin)
q Customized report matches epics and user stories to automated
acceptance tests
q Test fails unless software is implemented correctly
Links to Feature
Documentation
Generated via Pickles

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Generating Documentation From
Specifications

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Combined Report
Page One
Page Two

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Different flavors of BDD
External Specification
Maintained Outside of
Code Base
Code
Base
Application
Excel Sheet Wiki Page
Textual Specification
Maintained Within
Code Base
Code
Base
Specification Captured
Directly In Source Code
Code
Base

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Gherkin Exercise: Team One
As a user
I want to input my feedback
So that I can recognize a co-worker for their actions
Acceptance Criteria
• Both sender and receiver email must be filled in
• One Corporate value (e.g. Integrity, Commitment, Courage, Excellence) must be filled in
• A short, optional description may be filled in
• I need to be able recognize someone even if they are not registered with the recognition system
Key Examples
• Leonard.mccoy@email.com recognizes an existing user spock@email.com for Integrity
• Anthony.bourdain@email.com recognizes a new user andrew.zimmern@email.com for Commitment
Create Recognition

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Gherkin Exercise: Team One (Hints)

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Two
As a manager
I want the system to limit the number of times per week a user can recognize a co-worker
So that a recognition is seen as valuable
Acceptance Criteria
• To send a recognition, both sender and receiver email must be filled in
• To send a recognition, one Corporate value (e.g. Integrity, Commitment, Courage, Excellence) must be filled in
• For each recognition, a short, optional description may be filled in
• If a user has sent three recognitions this week, system should prevent user from entering a fourth
Key Examples
Limit Recognitions Per Week
Sender Receiver Corporate Value Date Result
Tom.Cruise@email.org Johnny.depp@email.org Commitment Monday 17 Oct 2016 ok
Tom.Cruise@email.org Leonardo.DiCaprio@email.org Integrity Wed 19 Oct 2016 ok
Tom.Cruise@email.org Brad.Pitt@email.org Respect Thur 20 Oct 2016 ok
Tom.Cruise@email.org Robert.DowneyJr@email.org Courage Fri 21 Oct 2016 error

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Two (Hints)

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Three
As an administrator
I want to maintain the set of corporate values for which a user can recognize a peer
So that our corporate culture is aligned with the values we espouse
Acceptance Criteria
• Each corporate value consists of a one or two word title and a brief description
• There must never be less than two corporate values
• If a previously-existing corporate value is removed, existing recognitions are unaffected, but no new recognitions can be added
with the removed corporate value
Key Examples
Maintain Corporate Values
Corporate Value Description
Integrity Always act honestly, ethically, and do the right thing even when it hurts
Commitment Committed to the long term success and happiness of our customers, our people, and our partners
Courage To take on difficult challenges, to accept new ideas, to accept incremental failure
Excellence Always strive to exceed expectations and continuously improve

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Three (Hints)

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Four
As a user
I want to see the most recent recognitions
So that I can stay informed of the recognitions my peers are receiving
Acceptance Criteria
• Home page should display a list of all recognitions in the system
• Each recognition should list the sender email, receiver email, corporate value, and date sent
• The list of recognitions should show the most recent first, like the facebook feed
• A user should be able to sort any column
• A user should be able to show only recognitions for a particular corporate value (filter by corporate value)
Key Examples
Recognition Feed
Sender Receiver Corporate Value Date
Jaqen.Hghar@got.org Arya.Stark@got.org Excellence 10/12/2016
Jaqen.Hghar@got.org Arya.Stark@got.org Excellence 9/27/2016
Petyr.Baelish@got.org Sansa.Stark@got.org Courage 10/22/2016
Jaime.Lannister@got.org Cersei.Lannister@got.org Commitment 6/1/2016

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Gherkin Exercise: Team Four (Hints)

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Team Discussions, Q & A
Craeg Strong
Savant Financial Technologies, Inc.
d/b/a Ariel Partners
Cell: (917) 992-0259
cstrong@arielpartners.com
www.arielpartners.com
@arielpartners
Thank You!
Helpful Links
Gherkin Documentation: http://docs.behat.org/en/v2.5/guides/1.gherkin.html
Cucumber (Java, PHP, Ruby, etc): https://cucumber.io/
Cucumber (JavaScript): https://www.npmjs.com/package/cucumber
Specflow (.NET): http://www.specflow.org/
Pickles Documentation: http://www.picklesdoc.com/
CucumberJS Reports: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cucumber-html-reporter
…many more...

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Advantages of BDD Approach
Improves
Software
Quality
q Helps develop frugal, effective and testable software
q Answers: what functions are well-covered? Where do we have exposure?
Makes Writing
Tests Easier
q many convenience functions
q pre-integrated with powerful libraries like NUnit and Selenium
Encourages
Collaboration
q Encourages tester, analyst and developer to sync up
q Captures information that might otherwise be lost
Facilitates
Communication
q Way for Product Owners to provide concrete examples
q Easy to define boundary conditions
Documentation
and Reporting
q Requirements Traceability? Yup.
q Functional Coverage? Yup.
Are we building
right thing?
q Did we “answer the mail”?
q Validates that the software meets the requirements

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