BDD and C# – I Need your help

by thebeebs 11. November 2009 07:32

Just read this blog on BDD seems very interesting as it addresses a problem that I’ve come across allot… understanding what a users wants and formalising it in a way that the user can understand and the developer can work too.

I had a brief look at some of the tools Cucumber etc and it seemed apparent that none of them would fit nicely into my actual development environment.

What I like about BDD mainly is the language so for the moment that's all I'm going to take from it.

I’ll write the following in my comments and use it as a base to craft my unit tests.

Now an immediate problem I can see is that my scenarios test allot more than I'd want to do in one test, so I'll need to create more than one unit test per scenario.

Has anyone worked with BDD in C#? am I missing something? Help my out with your comments.

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Tags: bdd, unit testing

Michael

11/11/2009 4:33:05 PM #

Have you had a look at NGourd?

http://code.google.com/p/ngourd/

Adam Nowotny

12/11/2009 6:33:10 PM #

BDD style tests are better suited for testing interactions between objects or behavior of application as perceived by the user. Unit tests operate on more detailed view and test only a single class/method. I used StoryQ (http://www.codeplex.com/storyq) for BDD. It has a nice feature where you can start with text description as in your comments and then gradually add methods that describe a certain condition or action.

thebeebs

12/16/2009 1:30:50 AM #

Sure but since I'm using MVC I can test the controllers in a similar way to actual user interatction. Plus I can test any JS or view side logic directly in the unit test using something like teleriks WebUI test studio dlls.

So I can write a unit test that can check to see if a user hovers over a textbox that the textbox clears the text for example.

Although I'm using Unit tests i'm not atually using them to test single units of code, i'm using them to validate the BDD stories that I have discussed with the client.... I know it's hacky.

Thanks for the StoryQ link I'll take a look later today.

Stepan

1/3/2010 6:53:26 AM #

You can take a loot at SpecFlow http://specflow.org/. It seems very easy to use and rather powerfull!

1/7/2010 11:15:44 PM #

@Stepan, Now that looks like something I can use. I much prefer the annotation approach compared with the lamda syntax of storyq.

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