On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, aslak hellesoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:52 PM, aidy lewis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is there a difference between Behaviour-Driven-Development and >> Story-Driven-Development? Is Story-Driven-Development a more accurate >> description of using Cucumber as a Story Runner? > > Excellent question, > > I think the more common term is STDD (Story Test Driven Development). > There is ATDD (Acceptance-Test Driven Development too) ;-)
And ATDP - Acceptance Test Driven Planning - which is subtly different from STDD and ATDD in that it prescribes that scenarios are derived in the iteration planning meeting as an estimation tool. > > They are all variations on the same theme and only marginally different IMO. > The biggest difference seems to be that different people and groups promote > them and talk about them in slightly different ways, and emphasise the > various techniques differently. My personal take is that BDD *is* ATDD/STDD, > but with an additional emphasis on Business value and getting the words > right. I'm not sure how ATDD and STDD are different. Me neither, but I think that ATDP is really what BDD is after (*hears a chorus of the LBJ song from hair*). Cheers, David > > Maybe the best place to get a good balance of viewpoints on this topic is in > a tool-agnostic forum - maybe this one: > http://groups.google.com/group/behaviordrivendevelopment (I don't know of > any STDD or ATDD forums). > > There are good articles about ATDD and STDD here: > > http://testobsessed.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/atddexample.pdf > http://industriallogic.com/papers/storytest.pdf > http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/sqe/bettersoftware0908/ (page 24-29) > > Aslak > >> >> Regards >> >> Aidy >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
