Behavior-Driven Development - CI/CD Glossary Definition

Behavior-driven development expresses tests as readable behavior scenarios shared across the whole team.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) extends TDD by describing desired behavior in natural language (Given, When, Then) that both business and engineering can read, then automating those scenarios as tests.

BDD, associated with Dan North, shifts the focus from testing implementation to specifying behavior. Frameworks like Cucumber and SpecFlow execute the scenarios.

In CI

BDD scenario suites run in the pipeline like any other tests, providing both regression protection and human-readable documentation.

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