Implement BDD Testing Like a pro for Quality Test Automation

FEBRUARY 17, 2022 10AM PST

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JAMES BENT

JAMES BENT

HEAD OF SALES ENGINEERING VIRTUOSO

RYAN THORNTON

RYAN THORNTON

HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING VIRTUOSO

HARSHIT PAUL

HARSHIT PAUL

PRODUCT & GROWTH MANAGER LAMBDATEST

Abstract

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a software development process for agile teams that allows users to define cases in plain English. It enables team members with little technical knowledge to comprehend what is going on in the development, bridging the gap between business and technical individuals. Over time, the applications of BDD evolved toward Gherkin, a language used by developers to construct tests in Cucumber. Gherkin allows users to design effective tests in a well-documented style that requires the least amount of reasoning and logic details.

Introducing the BDD approach early in the development phase can give better results. However, the BDD adoption is still uneven, and end-to-end functional testing occurs at the end of the development phase. But what if you could create completely executable end-to-end tests from BDD specifications? And you could discover tolls to assure that your requirements are testable?

To implement BDD testing for quality test automation, LambdaTest hosted a webinar with Virtuoso - an automation platform to create robust and reliable tests for web applications. Harshit Paul - Product & Growth at LambdaTest, James Bent - Head of Sales Engineering, and Ryan Thornton - Head of Product Marketing from Virtuoso joined hands to demonstrate how to execute end-to-end tests from BDD requirements fully.

The webinar started with Ryan, explaining why we adopt agile methodologies, introduction to BDD and its key features, and requirements are king - if you don’t build the right thing, the cost of fixing rises throughout the SDLC. He then introduced Gherkin syntax - a human-readable language for QA engineers to perform testing against this syntax. Ryan then explained the BDD cycle for writing specifications how and when you should implement it across SDLC. To ensure that requirements are testable, we can use AI to create test structures from requirements and build tests using natural language - he added.

James then demonstrated the integration of Virtuoso with LambdaTest to leverage BDD for creating automated tests even if you’re at the planning stage. Then he showed how to integrate tests with CI/CD pipeline and run the test on the LambdaTest platform. After this, Harshit introduced the LambdaTest platform and provided a quick walkthrough of how customers can perform automation testing using Selenium with BDD framework, and much more with just a few clicks and leverage platform capabilities to make their testing more streamlined. In addition, he discusses how-to view test logs and test analytics of your automation test runs.

Finally, the webinar ended with a Q&A session.

If you missed our webinar, the entire recording is available on the LambdaTest YouTube channel.

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