My understanding is that Test Driven Development hit the mainstream (did smalltalk have a unit test framework?) with JUnit.[1] Junit allowed developers to automate their unit tests. All the unit tests for your project should run in seconds, if your codebase and tests are loosely coupled.
e.g. testThatTheFooObjectReturnsABarWhenPassedABaz Those TDD style tests can be pretty ugly. In theory you can use them as a spec to describe what code does, but in practice, no. So a guy called Dan North coined the term Behaviour Driven Development, and focussed on the language used to help Business Analysts or other guys in suits to specify. This is where the Given/When/Then syntax comes from. He worked on JBehave as an alternative to JUnit so you can specify behavior. But Rspec and Cucumber are where the notion has taken off. I'd write more but I have to make my kids' dinner :) J. [1] http://www.junit.org/ 2009/11/9 Christian Kauhaus <k...@gocept.com>: > > Isaac Christoffersen schrieb: >> to validate the server configuration. The combination of TDD and BDD >> with server rollouts is very attractive. > > I think the whole topic is really hot. :-) > > It would probably a good idea to expand what the difference between TDD > and BDD in systems management actually is about. > > Not everyone here on the list is fine with the subtle differences in > terminology (for example, me ;-) ) > > Regards > > Christian > > -- > Dipl.-Inf. Christian Kauhaus <>< · k...@gocept.com · systems administration > gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany > http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 11 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 > Zope and Plone consulting and development > > > > -- Julian Simpson Software Build and Deployment http://www.build-doctor.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
