Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) for All 

Course & Training

Empower your software development team with ‘Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) for All’. In this interactive workshop, you and your team will learn the basics of BDD and the Gherkin syntax. You will see how you can use it to revolutionise collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, boost your efficiency and raise the quality of your products to a new level.

Enjoy the perfect mix of theory and practice. I keep theoretical inputs short and focus fully on teamwork and realistic exercises. You and your team will go through the entire process of a requirement with BDD and Gherkin. Acquire new skills that you can use immediately on the job!

In-House Course:

We are happy to conduct tailored courses for your team - on-site, remotely or in our course rooms.

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Public Course Schedule:

   

Content:


We will discover the many opportunities offered by BDD and Gherkin on the aid of specific practical challenges.
We will specifically cover the following topics:

- Introduction to BDD & Gherkin
- Practical simulation
- Discovery workshop for a new requirement
- Tracking down technical scenarios
- Discuss test strategies
- Define Gherkin Scenarios
- Consider documentation concept


Disclaimer: The actual course content may vary from the above, depending on the trainer, implementation, duration and constellation of participants.

Whether we call it training, course, workshop or seminar, we want to pick up participants at their point and equip them with the necessary practical knowledge so that they can apply the technology directly after the training and deepen it independently.

Goal:

After this course, participants will be able to
- improve cross-functional collaboration
- apply the Gherkin syntax
- accelerate their development cycle
- increase product quality
- harmonise functional and technical requirements


Duration:

 2 Days (Is individually adapted for in-house courses.)


Form:

Workshop-format intensive course focussing on practical exercises in small groups.


Target Audience:

Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, UX-Designers, everyone involved in the software development process.


Requirements:

Agile/Scrum basics are an advantage.


Preparation:

Each participant receives a questionnaire and installation instructions after registration. Matching the answers we send individual feedback.

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Waitinglist for public course:

Sign up for the waiting list for more public course dates. Once we have enough people on the waiting list, we will determine a date that suits everyone as much as possible and schedule a new session. If you want to participate directly with two colleagues, we can even plan a public course specifically for you.

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(If you already have 3 or more participants, we will discuss your preferred date directly with you and announce the course.)

More about Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)



Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an agile software development methodology that encourages collaboration between developers, QA engineers, and non-technical stakeholders. By using a shared language – typically in the form of Given/When/Then scenarios written in Gherkin – requirements are expressed as executable specifications. BDD bridges the gap between business requirements and technical implementation, significantly reducing misunderstandings in the development process.




History


BDD was introduced in the early 2000s by Daniel Terhorst-North as an evolution of Test Driven Development (TDD). Dissatisfied with the focus on tests rather than behavior, he began developing JBehave in 2003 – a replacement for JUnit that used the language of behavior instead of testing. In 2007, the Gherkin language was introduced, formalizing the Given/When/Then pattern and becoming the foundation for many BDD frameworks.


With the release of Cucumber – initially for Ruby, later for many other languages – BDD became widely adopted in the software development industry. Today, BDD is an established part of agile development processes and is used by teams worldwide to improve communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.