Introduction to bddify

Using bddify

• Introducing bddify: which is this post
• Using Method Name Conventions
• Writing stories
• Using Executable Attributes
• Using Fluent API
• Input parameters in Fluent API
• Mix and match them all
• Console report
• Html report

Customizing and extending bddify

• Customizing html report
• Creating your own report
• Create a step scanner

• bddify can run with any testing framework. It does not force you to use any particular framework. Actually bddify does not force you to use a testing framework at all. You can just apply it on POCO classes even in a console app if that is what you need!
• bddify does not need a separate test runner. You can use your runner of choice. For example, if you like NUnit, then you may write your bddify tests using NUnit and run them using NUnit console or GUI runner, Resharper or TD.Net and regardless of the runner, you will get the same result. This means it integrates with the tools you know and love instead of adding yet another one on the top of them.
• bddify can run standalone scenarios. Although bddify supports stories, you do not necessarily have to have or make up a story to use bddify. This is useful for developers who work in non-Agile environments but would like to get some decent testing experience.
• You can use underscored or pascal or camel cased method names for your steps.
• You do not have to explain your scenarios or stories or steps in string: bddify infers them based on conventions but you can override the conventions if you need full control over what gets printed into console and HTML reports. Conventions galore in bddify and pretty much everything has a convention; but it is also very easy to override these conventions.
• bddify is very extensible. In fact, bddify core barely has any logic in it. It delegates all its responsibilities to its extensions.
• bddify learning curve is rather flat. Not only that but it makes learning BDD effortless.

• Create a new test project in Visual Studio. It could be an MSTest project or a library project where your favorite testing framework is installed.
• Then install bddify nuget package: Install-Package bddify
• Now create a new class called BddifyRocks and paste the following bit of code in it:

using Bddify.Core;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using Bddify;
namespace BddifyIntro.MsTest
{
    [TestClass]
    [Story(
        AsA = "As a .net programmer",
        IWant = "I want to use bddify",
        SoThat = "So that BDD becomes easy and fun")]
    public class BddifyRocks
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void ShouldBeAbleToBddifyMyTestsVeryEasily()
        {
            this.Bddify();
        }
        void GivenIHaveNotUsedBddifyBefore()
        {
        }
        void WhenIAmIntroducedToTheFramework()
        {
        }
        void ThenILikeItAndStartUsingIt()
        {
        }
    }
}