Behavior Driven Development

BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is a software development process that originally emerged from Test Driven Development (TDD). Behavior Driven Development is written in such a way that it illustrates the behaviour of the system, written in readable and understandable language for everyone involved in the development.

BDD (Behavior Driven Development) especially focuses on providing shared process and shared tools promoting communication among software developers and business analyst on collaborating on software development or we can say being on the same page. “Dan North”, the person who is responsible for the evolution of BDD. According to him - “BDD is using example at multiple levels to create a shared understanding and surface uncertainty to deliver software that matter.” The example in which BDD are written includes:-

  • Converted in to Executive specification
  • Used as the acceptance test

BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Key-Features

BDD (Behavior Driven Development) focuses on:-
  • Providing a shared process and shared tools on promoting communication to the software developer, business analyst and stakeholders to collaborate on software development, with the aim of delivering product with business value.
  • What a system must do and rather not on how it should be implemented.
  • Providing better readability and visibility.
  • Working not only in the working of the software but also that it meets customer expectation.

Feature File for BDD

  • Feature: A feature would describe the current test script which has to be executed.
  • Scenario: For a particular test case, scenario would describe the expected outcome and steps.
  • Background: Before each scenario, background describes the steps that would be executed.
  • Scenario Outline: We can execute the same scenarios for multiple sets of data, using scenario outline. The data is provided in a tabular structure (separated by | |). By providing the column header in angular brackets (< >) the step definitions can be parameterized. For each parameter, double quotes need to be put in the table and not in the step definition.
  • Given: ‘Given’ specifies the context of the text to be executed. Given step can also be parameterized using data tables.
  • When: ‘When’ specifies the test action to be performed.
  • Then: ‘Then’ specifies the expected outcome of the test.
In each step definition within double quotes (“”), parameters can be passed. It will read as Regex format. Tags can be provided for different features, backgrounds or scenarios. In determining the specific scripts that would be executed, the tags would help.

What Is Cucumber?

Cucumber is one of the testing framework that helps to bridge the gap between business managers and software developers. Based on the BDD (Behavior Driven Development) style, tests are written in plain language that helps a layperson to understand. Cucumber allows software development teams to describe how software should behave in a plain text. The text is written in a domain-specific business-readable specific languages and serve as development-aid, automated tests and as documentation into one format.

Cucumber is a functional test automation tool for lean and agile teams. It supports Behavior Driven Development, specification by example and agile acceptance testing. Cucumber is a Ruby tool that offers a natural-language way to specify behaviors in terms of “Given, When, Then” (GWT) sentence fragments. This language is called Gherkin.

The syntax is extremely flexible: Cucumber only cares about the Gherkin keywords “Given,” “When,” “Then,” “And” (plus a few others); everything else is simply matched against your regular expressions. Any tokens captured by capture groups in your regexes are passed to your step definition blocks as parameters. Cucumber can be used along with Selenium, Watir, and Capybara etc. Cucumber supports many other languages like Perl, PHP, Python, Net etc. In this tutorial, we will concentrate on Cucumber with Java as a language.

What is Gherkin?

Gherkin is a Business Readable, Domain Specific Language created especially for behavior descriptions. It gives you the ability to remove logic details from behavior tests. Gherkin serves two purposes: serving as your project's documentation and automated tests. It is a structured language; it follows some syntax let us first see a simple scenario described in gherkin.

Feature: Search feature for users
This feature is very important because it will allow users to filter products
Scenario: When a user searches, without spelling mistake, for a product name present in inventory. All the products with similar name should be displayed
Given: User is on the main page of www.myshopingsite.com
When: User searches for laptops
Then: search page should be updated with the lists of laptops
Gherkin contains a set of keywords which define different premise of the scenario. As we can see above the bold parts are the keywords. We will discuss about the gherkin test structure in details later but the key points to note are:
  • The test is written in plain English which is common to all the domains of your project team.
  • This test is structured that makes it capable of being read in an automated way. There by creating automation tests at the same time while describing the scenario.

Service Offerings

  • We provide automation requirement analysis, automation test strategy/plan, test estimation, script creation, test scripts execution, defect management and test progress reporting to client/stakeholders.
  • With the ideas from objected oriented analysis, design and domain-driven design to provide software development and with shared process & shared tools of management.
  • With BDD (Behavior Driven Development), we collaborative everyone which require a cross-functional team consisting of customer/client, BAs, QAs, testers, UI & UX designers and software developers.
  • With Oditek, you can avoid technical time waste caused by a reluctance to refactor code, slow feedback caused by handovers and silos, or rework caused by vague requirements. We offer a pro-active approach to software development.
  • Oditek can help you implement individual tools to roll-out any number of combinations and integrations between them and configure them to your exact requirements – all within a matter of days.
  • We will take the time to fully understand the way you currently work and what you are trying to achieve, in order to help you to build a comprehensive solution plan to move forward.
  • Break/fix support, meaning if an application goes down, we'll be on hand to get you up and running again.
  • We provide all kind of test basically for web-based/enterprise application.

Skill Matrixes

  • 7+ years of in-depth experience on automation testing in Agile environment.
  • 10+ experience hand on Automation experience on (Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Serenity).
  • Experience on continuous integration tools Jenkin or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience in Test Strategies, Test Script, Automation Framework Designing, Refactoring, Executing and maintaining automated test scripts.
  • We understand and design Automation Framework - Hybrid, Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Behavior Driven
  • We apply automated tools in testing of applications across all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • We are acquainted with tools and processes to automate other test activities, such as test management, reporting, test data generation and defect management.
  • We implement the test strategy via developing, executing test script and report generation.
  • Provide timely project related data as required in applicable systems and ensure timely reporting and response to client partners.
  • Working knowledge on Selenium, Cucumber and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) tools along with the understanding of TestNG/Junit, Gherkin, Ant/Maven and Jenkins
  • We are capable of designing, developing and supporting frameworks for any kind of test.
  • Proficient with bug tracking and test management tool sets
  • We are all over the place in the field of Testing like Unit testing, Integration Testing, Performance/Stress/Scalability Testing, Automated Browser Testing, Visual Regression Testing, User Testing, Security Penetration Testing etc.
  • Able to identify the gaps between manual and automaton testing and implement the solution regarding the same
  • Good Programming skills in Java (Collections API, File I/O, Database I/O) and JSON
  • Good for Web services testing using SoapUI, PostMan etc.
  • Experience in version source control tools like GIT, SVN etc. and version control tools and test management tools like HP ALM.

Need Our Competencies? Contact us:

If you need to hire expert developers or test professionals for your next project or want to outsource development tasks on an ongoing basis by having an extended offshore software development team, get in touch with OdiTek Solutions today.

contact us
+91 8763277165
info@oditeksolutions.com

No up-front payment

We don't always ask dollars to kick-start, we wish to forge relationships where you will be assured that the team on which you would rely to build your product or solutions are good enough to do it. Reach out today, we would love to kick start the journey together!

contact us
+91 8763277165
info@oditeksolutions.com

Quick-notice start/stop

We are obliged to work on a mutually beneficial arrangement, contracts mean a legal paper but we understand that it's you who will decide w.r.t. work. We are open to both formal contracts as well as quick-notice start-stop mode of engagement.

contact us
+91 8763277165
info@oditeksolutions.com

Skills

Why Choose OdiTek

  • Technology Excellence across platforms
  • Business ideas into commercial applications
  • Domain Intensive Value Proposition
  • Significant Cost Reduction with ODC model
  • Pool of expertise in Agile Teams to choose
  • Flexible work hours based on need
  • Commitment to excellence, Reliable

Key Points

  • Competitive cost Proposition
  • Wider platform coverage
  • Business application & interface development
  • Highly trained resources
  • Commitment to Quality
  • Agile methodologies & practices
  • Deep domain & functional expertise
  • Happy international clients

Skill Set

  • Software programming and testing
  • Cross-platform development skills
  • Multiple OS, tools, technology skills
  • Web, mobile & business applications
  • Automated testing across industry verticals
  • Optimized, high-productivity porting
  • Effective communication
  • International Project Management skills

Client Testimonials

We had a tough deadline to launch our .Net based application that processes a lot of data, and got very frustrated with our development agency we hired. Fortunately we got Oditek, and they took over seamlessly the product development, launched the app & continued feature development. Just awesome!

Neal Bonrud

Co-Founder – SubScreener, USA

They were very attentive to our needs as clients and went out of the way to make sure our projects were taken care of. They were always able to get projects done in the specifications we requested. They are passionate about getting things done; I would definitely recommend them to lead any IT projects.

Dann Manahan

Sr VP Technology- 1031 Crowd Funding

I worked with OdiTek on few high profile banking application projects. They did a fantastic job with web applications & manual testing on the VAS apps for two leading banks of UK that included rigorous UAT phases. I recommend them for any application development where security matters.

Clive Shirley

CTO- Smarta, UK

OdiTek is our extended team who works on our key software projects. They are dependable, good in collaboration and technically very much to the level what we expect a global team should be. They had transformed our web applications, CRM and added mobility to existing business platforms here.

Matt Berry

IT Manager- First Option Online

It's been more than 4 years now that we are working with OdiTek on our cloud based web product development. It's been amazing working together, they are very competent on designing scalable, high performance apps. Their technical support is outstanding to say the least, even at odd hours.

Brad Taylor

CEO- BluesummitTech, USA

I am a fan of Team OdiTek since 2014 and have worked on many product development projects together. Specially worth mentioning their deliveries on VAS Banking web application development & manual testing services for Smarta, UK. They are highly skilled & a professional team to work with.

Tom Bowden

Digital Propositions - HSBC, London

OdiTek has been working on our Integrated Web-scale Mobile Platform i.e. Optimal Health since 2014. They are very professional and takes care of the requirements meticulously. They are technically very sound and sincere in ensuring quality & performance. Wonderful working with them!

Catherine Lim

COO- Medilink Global Sdn Bdh

You can trust the team, with minimum supervision you get the work done. They are honest, professional & committed to schedule & quality. I had been successfully running 3 business applications designed, developed and maintained by Oditek developers. It’s been a pleasure working with them.

Scott Evans

CEO- Pink Storage, UK

OdiTek has been working in custom software development, including services for test automation. Many of them have worked with me in 2009-10 when I was R&D Manager in NetHawk India. They have great enthusiasm & a passion to excel in bringing customer success. Their work has been very impressive.

Karen Hamber

Senior Product Manager- Skype

It's amazing to see these guys are turning their experience into a global delivery excellence at OdiTek. I am sure their past large scale product development experience will be handy to product companies. I would always recommend Oditek for software development, especially performance-driven solutions.

Juha Marjeta

Opti Automation Oyj
×