What Makes BDD Better?
Behavior Driven Development eases communication. It gives clarity, creates flexibility, and increases velocity.
BDD solves the fundamental problems of creating software.
“Our app’s spending system was more complicated than anything a dating app had done before. BiTe was able to make sense of each possible scenario and use BDD to test for every possible outcome. The result was an app that worked beautifully and didn’t drive us crazy in the process.”
Robin Leigh
Director of Communications“BiTE’s senior leadership helped us embrace BDD, define the core strategy and provide critical architecture for our next generation clinical trial platform.”
Jesse O’Gorman
Vice President“BiTE’s strategic, design and iOS expertise were integral to our success. They developed a solution that opened up new funding opportunities and protected us from an existential threat.”
George Paskalev
Chief Operating Officer
BDD validates requirements up front.
That means less refactoring in later (more expensive) phases.
By ensuring better, more complete discovery in the early stages of the project, BDD shifts costs and schedules left by moving critical changes to the least expensive (and least risky) phase of a project.
STEP 1
Example Mapping is the powerful,
collaborative process in which strategy is
translated into business rules.
collaborative process in which strategy is
translated into business rules.
We create concrete examples, revealing edge case scenarios and
discovering new user stories.
Example Mapping lights the happy and sad paths ahead, all before a single
line of code is written.
STEP 2
Gherkin uses plain English to describe software specifications. Translating business requirements into plain english language, builds a bridge between the business executives, engineers and QA.
By defining exactly what needs to be built and why, Gherkin becomes the ground truth.
Structured,
Yet Flexible
Gherkin adds just enough structure to detail the business rules discovered and clarified in Example Mapping.
It communicates eloquently to humans, but in a format that leads to better automated tests.
Gherkin adds just enough structure to detail the business rules discovered and clarified in Example Mapping.
It communicates eloquently to humans, but in a format that leads to better automated tests.
Simple, Yet
Powerful
Keeping the Gherkin straightforward, readable, and universally understandable, allows us to get meaningful feedback from project stakeholders.
Keeping the Gherkin straightforward, readable, and universally understandable, allows us to get meaningful feedback from project stakeholders.
STEP 3
By transforming the Gherkin into automated test scripts, we speed development and augment testing. Automation leads to greater project velocity and a better final product.
Automated tests guide development through known business cases.
They verify that every piece of code functions as intended.
QA Engineers perform critical, exploratory testing to find novel and non-obvious bugs.
Automated testing gives our clients complete, objective assurance that features are working as documented and as expected.
For clients in highly regulated industries like finance and life science, this provides auditors the objective proof needed to show the app functions as it should.
Automated tests remain valuable after the software is finished. They ease any additional features and code improvements by ensuring nothing working gets broken in the process.
Elegant, powerful, and transformative, BDD is critical to the success of every mobile app we build.
Schedule a Call Today
The clarity and structure of Example Mapping and Gherkin build the surest roadmap for our engineers. As the engineers develop, automation provides concrete, real-time feedback on their progress. When all the Gherkin are green, the business side knows what the engineering side does: The apps are ready to ship.
