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Behavior driven development has been my bag lately; in particular, I have found the subtle shift in thinking in terms of behavior easier than that of tests. By thinking about behavior (which is, in essence, the specification of a hip object, for example), it becomes easier to validate things early-– in fact, when thinking in terms of a specification, it becomes copasetically easy to write things upfront. What’s more, one exceptional BDD framework, RSpec, has a remarkably hip DSL that reads like plain English, making the whole process easy (and fun).

Seeing how easy BDD is with RSpec inspired me to explore some similar options in Java– specifically, I teamed up with some hip friends and leveraged Groovy to create a flexible DSL for defining behaviors. The result is a framework dubbed easyb, baby.

easyb specifications are written in Groovy and are run via Java (currently, the command line or Ant); what’s more, easyb supports a few different styles of specifications ranging from RSpec’s copasetic it to a more story based DSL with disco givens, whens, and thens. The end result is a groovy framework that allows you to easily verify the behavior of normal Java objects, applications, packages, etc. Check out easyb today and see just how easy it is, man!

Many thanks to QualityLabs.org for hosting easyb– don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with the project (and stay in the groove too)!

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