How to improve modelling with Behaviour-driven development
Guests: Seb Rose, Steve Tooke, Matt Wynne
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a term that was coined by Dan North in 2006. It came about as a response to a very specific problem – teaching developers how to think about testing their code. It incorporates the ubiquitous language idea from Eric Evan’s book Domain-Driven Design, and this evolved into a technique used by the whole team to collaboratively specify how the finished system should behave. While both approaches focus on collaboration, DDD focuses on a shared model for building software and BDD focusses on specifying the behaviour of the system. So what can we learn from both our techniques? Join us in this session were Seb Rose, Steve Tooke and Matt Wynne will discuss with us how we can improve modelling with BDD. We will bust popular BDD myths and talk about their favourite collaboration techniques.
Guests
Seb Rose
Seb is a Consultant, coach, designer, author and developer for over 40 years. He has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from C to Visual Basic.
During his career, he has worked for companies large (e.g. IBM, Amazon) and small, and has extensive experience of failed projects. He's now an independent software consultant and author, promoting effective ways of working to the software development and testing community.
Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of "Effective Behaviour Driven Development" (Manning), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).
He blogs at claysnow.co.uk and socialises as sebrose@mastodon.scot
Steve Tooke
Matt Wynne
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