[rspec-users] Cucumber step definitions vs. RSpec examples

[Stephen Eley]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Brandon Olivares
<programmer2188 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For me, it's either TDD or BDD, honestly. I've experienced the assurance
> having tests for nearly every line of code affords me, and don't want to
> forgo that. But I like the semantics of BDD a lot better, after reading the
> RSpec book.

Interesting.  I don't think what you're saying is invalid, but I do
think it's an _unusual_ perspective to consider TDD and BDD as an
either/or.  Depending on whom you ask, BDD is most often seen either
as an evolution/elaboration on TDD, or else the differences are viewed
as purely semantic.

Either way, though, by practicing BDD you're generally doing
everything you'd do in TDD.  You're still specifying
success-vs.-failure conditions before you write the code, and then
writing only the code necessary to achieve success.  Whether you call
those conditions 'behaviors' or 'tests' doesn't change that
fundamental pattern.


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