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My good friend Rod Coffin, who is an easyb team member (this cat is a coding machine and is behind the IntelliJ plug-in, the Maven plug-in, and numerous core features) recently wrote an article for JavaWorld entitled “Behavior-driven development with easyb“, which obviously extolls the manifold benefits of BBD and how to fully realize increased collaboration via a natural language provided by easyb.

Rod does a hip job of describing BDD in terms of TDD and how the two are different– as he says:

BDD attempts to re-orient the focus of TDD away from the specific structure of implementation code and towards system behaviors. One advantage of this approach is that behaviors change less often than implementation details, and typically such changes are precipitated by intentional enhancements to the functionality of the system, not as a result of simple refactoring activities.

Rod goes on to demonstrate how one can use BDD (via easyb) to verify system behavior using a more natural language. As Rod articulates,

easyb specifications are relatively free of programmer-specific syntax, placing the focus instead on communicating behaviors.

Additionally, Rod mentions that

easyb aims to stay out of the way of the story-writing process so that the center of attention is on the conversation taking place, not on the tool that is being used to capture that conversation.

Rod’s article is an excellent read and definitely serves as an in-depth tutorial on leveraging BDD with easyb– give it a read, man!

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