Le 21 avr. 2015 à 13:44, Sean P. DeNigris a écrit :

> Miguel Moquillon wrote
>> BDD and TDD stands for different purposes with different actors...
> 
> While that's unfortunately often true in practice, there is no difference
> philosophically. [T|B]DD "done right" always focuses on the user. But
> because of the word "test" in TDD, many tests (including many in our image)
> became incomprehensible from a "how do I use this library" POV, tested
> internal implementation details, etc. So BDD was invented to make the focus
> on behaviors explicit and to guide us all toward best practice. It also
> quite nicely unified acceptance testing and unit testing.
> 
> The "In order to..." that you're describing is the outer, high-level
> acceptance test that in Ruby for example might be written with Cucumber. But
> once one has a failing acceptance test, the next step in BDD is to drop down
> into e.g. RSpec and write something a lot closer to a unit test, often
> mocking out collaborators to drive creation of an API.

this one is often called the outside - in loop (ref: 
http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story/).
Even is the outside - in loop is not used, I find valuable to encourage people 
to name (and write) their unit tests in terms of behavior.
        

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