W3 An Introduction To BDD

Unlock your quality team's full potential with BDD as Your QA Superpower, a technique that goes beyond testing to transform how software is built. You’ll explore Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) as a collaborative approach that sharpens communication, clarifies requirements, and drives effective automation.

Through exercises with Gherkin, Ubiquitous Language for Clear Test Conditions, and using methods such as the Discovery Workshop you’ll learn how to turn examples into executable tests.

The workshop will include lots of hands-on exercises; please come prepared to participate! Automation examples and exercises will be primarily in Python; if you know Python please come prepared with a VM ready to customize for the class.

Leslie Brooks

Known as the “BDD Coach,” Leslie Brooks has decades of experience in QA and specifically in automated testing, but is always laser focused on value. Automated tests that cost too much to maintain don't deliver the value we should demand. He loves teaching about Specification by Example/BDD and the tremendous improvements it can bring to the entire organization.

When we are able to write better requirements, write better code (and fewer bugs), find and fix bugs faster, and deliver better quality code faster, then he feels his work has been accomplished.