bdd in xamarin with specflow & xamarin ui test
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What is BDD?
We literally could talk hours about this, but here is the point we will focus:
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Shop PhotosBehavior-driven development borrows the concept of the ubiquitous language from domain driven design. A ubiquitous language is a (semi-) formal language that is shared by all members of a software development team — both software developers and non-technical personnel."
Wikipedia
Teams nowadays
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Your boss
Product Manager
UI / UX Designer
Head of Delivery
Developers, Developers, Developers
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Testers
That guy that everyone question what he does?
Someone you heard about but it’s a ghost
Someone you don't know
How can all this people use the same language?
GHERKINFTW! I’m expecting all these guys can read/write english
What is Gherkin?
Gherkin is the language that Cucumber understands. It is a Business Readable, Domain Specific Language that lets you describe software's behaviour without detailing how that behaviour is implemented. Gherkin serves two purposes — documentation and automated tests.
Wikipedia
PS: I do love Wiki references, my bad
What is Gherkin?
what a beauty!
You don’t need to be a developer to understand this right?
What is Gherkin?
Wikipedia says Gherkin is a language that Cucumber understand, now what the hell is Cucumber?
What is Cucumber?
When testing mobile apps, there is an existing solution that brings BDD and Gherkin to iOS and Android testing. This is the open source project named Calabash. Calabash uses the Ruby? based framework named Cucumber to execute the acceptance tests defined from our specifications.
But this is not important right? we want C# don’t we?
What is Xamarin.UITest?
Xamarin.UITest is a very similar framework to Calabash,
except it allows us to write our tests using C# and execute them using one of the common .Net unit testing frameworks, typically NUnit.
What is Xamarin.UITest?Gavin did a good job explaining you this.
this is the language we speak! <3=
But how about this guys?
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Your boss
Product Manager
UI / UX Designer
Head of Delivery
Developers, Developers, Developers
Scrum Master
Business Analyst
Testers
That guy that everyone question what he does?
Someone you heard about but it’s a ghost
Someone you don't know
What is C#?
We could go this way, but ...
What is C#?
What is C#?
SO SPECFLOW FTW!
SpecFlow fills that void and allows us to write our specifications as Features and Steps written using Gherkin. SpecFlow then enables us to write the definition of those steps as C# code.
We can combine SpecFlow and Xamarin.UITest to give us all the benefits of BDD and Gherkin while using the C# language that we know and love.
What is SpecFlow?
It’s DEMO TIME!