What if your code spoke the same language as your business context? That’s exactly the promise of BDD.
BDD, or Behavior Driven Development, is a practice that consists of describing the behavior you want from the application before you’ve even written the code or the tests.
The structure of BDD is based on: given that, when I do something, then this happens.
In the kitchen, it could be: given that I have flour, milk and eggs, when I mix them and cook them, I get a crêpe. That’s what we want to define. How do we make a crêpe? What result will we get? And what are the steps to get there?
This approach starts from concrete examples from users, from what we want to be able to do, and serves as a foundation for the code, for defining the domains and how we’ll work, but also for tests and automated tests, because it directly defines what we want to test and how we want to test it.
In short, BDD is a practice that aligns your whole team, from dev to QA to support. Everyone can understand, thanks to your business context, what is truly expected and what needs to be done, which clarifies communication between everyone.