Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a great way to organise your development. Creating Executable Specifications helps us to guide our work, but what does that look like in the real world on a real project delivering real software? In this episode, Dave Farley shows some real-world BDD examples. Acceptance tests from Adaptive, a London-based FinTech company building high-performance trading systems.
These kind of executable specifications, focused on the desirable behaviour of the system from the perspective of a user of it, help to steer development and so off guide-rails that structure the software engineering of great systems.
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LINKS
Adaptive build and operate business led technology solutions utilizing leading edge technologies. https://weareadaptive.com/
LMAX Architecture, described by Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
Reactive Manifesto, https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/
Aeron, World’s highest performance messaging system, https://github.com/real-logic/
“No Silver Bullet” by Fred Brooks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
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