Are BDD and test automation the same thing? Automation Guild 2021
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The document discusses the differences between test automation and behaviour-driven development (BDD). It defines test automation as using separate software to control test execution and compare results, while BDD creates shared understanding of requirements through structured conversations and examples documented in business language. Key differences are that BDD has broader impact through living documentation, whereas test automation has more applicable testing domains but may be siloed; both provide benefits like quality and feedback if practiced effectively together. The document warns against confusion that BDD is the same as test automation or that using Given/When/Then implies following BDD.
Are BDD and test automation the same thing? Automation Guild 2021
- 1. Are BDD and Test Automation the same thing? Seb Rose Twitter: @sebrose Blog: https://cucumber.io/blog/ E-mail: seb.rose@smartbear.com
- 2. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 3. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 4. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Define test automation “… test automation is the use of software separate from the software being tested to control the execution of tests and the comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes.” Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation
- 5. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com What are the benefits? Higher quality Repeatability Faster feedback More frequent feedback Lower costs ? ? ?
- 6. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com What are the challenges? http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/54918 By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21602080 Skills Testability Late feedback Overconfidence
- 7. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Interactions Architecture, Design Test Automation Development & Testing “The business” Here are our requirements Here’s the specification It works on my machine Something’s not right! There are some outstanding issues
- 8. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 9. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Define BDD Create a shared understanding of the requirements through collabora7on, typically achieved through a structured conversa7on centered on rules and examples Examples of system behaviour are documented using business terminology The documenta7on is automated, crea7ng living documenta7on that verifies the system’s behaviour Create a shared understanding of the requirements through collabora5on, typically achieved through a structured conversa5on centered on rules and examples Examples of system behaviour are documented using business terminology The documenta5on is automated, crea5ng living documenta5on that verifies the system’s behaviour https://cucumber.io/docs/bdd/
- 10. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com What are the benefits? Living documentation Shared understanding Early learning Speed of feedback Better quality Lower costs
- 11. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com What are the challenges? https://twistedsifter.com/videos/tadpole-to-frog-animation-by-harry-warne/ By Gary Todd - https://www.flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/28169055190/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1938a/ Change in working practices Immature tooling Other automated testing needed
- 13. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 14. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com BDD Test-automation Discovery - collabora7ve Automated, business- readable acceptance tests Automa7on - aHer/in parallel to coding - oHen siloed - performance/penetra7on etc. - not necessarily business-readable Automa7on - by/with developers - guides coding - living documenta7on - other tes7ng needed Formula7on - collabora7ve - shared understanding Comparison
- 16. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Executive summary Applicable test domains Breadth of impact BDD TA Size of circle has no meaning
- 17. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 18. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Confusion hAps:/ /cucumber.io/blog/bdd/bdd-is-not-test-automa7on/
- 19. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Given/When/Then are just words Following a BDD approach Using Given/When/Then for test automation
- 20. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Agenda Test automation Behaviour-driven development Compare and contrast Confusion Wrap-up
- 21. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Takeaways BDD has a broader impact Given/When/Then is not a discriminator Test automation has more applicable domains It’s not either/or. The best teams practice BDD and test automation
- 22. Seb Rose Twitter: @sebrose Blog: https://cucumber.io/blog/ E-mail: seb.rose@smartbear.com http://bddbooks.com