Make Your Automation Behave: Extending Your Framework for BDD

When done properly, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) can drastically improve the communication and understanding of requirements. An additional benefit is being able to utilize the domain-specific language of the requirements to drive test automation. However, like any other automation initiative, when done poorly, this too can fail.

In the session below, I provide a hands-on technical look into how to:

• utilize Gherkin-written scenarios for test automation
• write scenarios in a way that promote maintainability and reusability
• take advantage of advanced Gherkin functionality such as data tables and objects
• tie the scenarios to automation code
• incorporate this approach into existing automation frameworks that use the page object model design pattern
• share state across multiple steps within a scenario

Upon completion of this session, you’ll have a better understanding of how to

• Enhance your BDD initiative with test automation
• Cleanly extend an automation framework to support executable requirement specifications
• Support advanced techniques such as data tables and objects within specifications, as well as sharing state through dependency injection.