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Programmer, tester, manager, client \u2013 mutual understanding between these people is essential for the positive completion of any mobile application programming project. Nobody said it would be easy, but BDD<\/abbr> frameworks can help.<\/p>\n

At the very beginning of a project, as its contractor, we have to define the requirements of an android app with the client. Each required functionality should be described on the basis of a specific structure: title, description and acceptance criterion.<\/p>\n

The description should contain information about its: user,  business value, and effect (what happens after the function is performed).<\/p>\n

Acceptance criterion is a defined list of steps that must be taken to achieve the desired goal.<\/p>\n

Behavior driven testing<\/h2>\n

To determine that a feature meets the agreed upon acceptance criteria, we must test it. This is where the team often encounters communication barriers on the line: tester-developer or manager-client.<\/p>\n

Non-technical people understand the data specified in the test by the programmers differently.<\/strong> In relation to that, they are often unable to check what a given test performs and whether it meets the criteria described in the requirements. Behavior-Driven Development will come to our aid.<\/p>\n

In the first part of the article, “BDD frameworks”, I will briefly describe the main assumptions of BDD as the sections following describe selected User Interface testing frameworks<\/u><\/a> and Unit testing frameworks<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is Behavior-Driven Development?<\/h2>\n

BDD is a software development process created in 2003 on the basis of TDD<\/abbr>. Its main task is to describe the behavior of a system from the perspective of its users. With BDD testing tools we can test application views or perform unit tests, among other things.<\/p>\n

BDD development<\/h2>\n

The main rules of Behavior-Driven Development are as follows:<\/p>\n