Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) With Apex on Force.com

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) with Apex on Force.comOr “Here Comes Pepino”

Carolina Ruiz Medina, FinancialForce.com, Principal Developer@carolenlanubePaul Battisson, Xactium Cloud Solutions, Technology Architect@pbattisson

Objectives1. What is Behaviour Driven Development? 2. Why should you care?3. How can we use Behaviour Driven Development with Apex?4. Some awesome links to some awesome things for you

awesome people

What is Behaviour Driven Development?• Animal/Vegetable/Mineral/Machine?• TDD = Test Driven Development• BDD = Behavior Driven Development• Specs define your tests which define your code• What?

“Old Skool”

Code is written to mirror Developer’s understanding of spec. - focus is on “How?”

Using BDD

Focus is on “What” to be implemented for the system. A shared understanding by discussing examples

Original Idea

Intelligent Discussion

Options

Step Definitions in Gherkin

Pepino!

Demo time!

Summary• Agree definitions• Implement Behavio(u)r Defintions interface

• Return strings containing the required code• See examples in repository

• Upload feature file• Download generated test class

What else/future stuff?• Multi-language• Auto-upload of class for you• Auto-run of tests• Build actions/ant commands/API

Paul Battisson Carolina Ruiz Medina

@pbattisson @carolenlanube

Github Repository - http://bit.ly/HD5viCDan North – Introducing BDD - http://bit.ly/h9ADGw

Cucumber – cukes.info