Author: Jerome Josephraj

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) scenarios can be synced to a Atlassian JIRA agile project management tool and when a BDD scenario fails, a defect can be raised in JIRA through click of a button through "NoCodeBDD - JIRA sync" Atlassian extension. The reason we created this extension is to: Improve collaboration Easy for non-technical stake … Continue reading Integrating JIRA with your BDD

BCG estimates that 70% of digital transformation efforts fall short of meeting targets. A 2020 CISQ report found that the total cost of unsuccessful development projects among US firms is an estimated $260 billion, whereas the total cost of operational failures caused by poor quality software is estimated at $1.56 trillion. The Standish Group’s 2020 CHAOS report estimates that around … Continue reading Why Behavior-Driven Development can be a game changer for Startups?

Software test automation is hard. A staggering 64% of the time, automated testing fails to deliver according to expectations (Reference https://www.cigniti.com/blog/4-reasons-why-test-automation-fails-2/). In other words, only three out of every ten projects successfully achieve test automation. Moreover, behavior-driven development (BDD) automation is not immune to this. Many of the challenges you'll encounter with any software test … Continue reading 8 Common Reasons BDD Automation Fails

Using NoCodeBDD, you could synch your BDD Features, Scenarios, Steps, Scenario Outline, and Tags, created in NoCodeBDD, to a JIRA Ticket with few clicks, as shown in the following steps: Set-up process Before you start, follow these one-time setup processes in JIRA and in NoCodeBDD JIRA Set-up process In JIRA, search for the "NoCodeBDD JIRA … Continue reading Synching BDD Features to a JIRA Ticket

NoCodeBDD Vs Cucumber

BDD is not testing Contrary to popular belief, behavior-driven development (BDD) is not actually used for testing. Instead, BDD is a collaborative process that allows development teams to understand the requirements better, keeps them all on the same page, and facilitates better testing. And it's not a testing tool or a testing framework — it's … Continue reading How Behavior-Driven Development differs from Testing

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a popular development methodology that has been embraced across the software development industry, and it's one of the fastest-growing 'shift-left testing' approaches organizations adopt. With NoCodeBDD, you can create and manage feature specifications as living documentation, with instant access for all stakeholders (using the NoCodeBDD-JIRA connector)—and achieve functional automation in just … Continue reading Accelerate your BDD automation

A lot of debate surrounds whether behavior-driven development (BDD) is good for UI Automation. In our experience, using BDD only for UI Automation has a few issues:  Automating BDD at the UI layer tends to make your BDD automation suite brittle, flaky, and not scalable Teams tend to focus on UI elements more than the behavior … Continue reading Is BDD Good for UI Automation?

A critical factor in any Agile environment is to deliver “working software.” Working software is that which works as per the acceptance criteria—not just for the functionality that gets delivered but also for all the previous functionalities that were delivered in previous sprints. Imagine a team delivering a complex pricing calculation functionality in a sprint … Continue reading Why Achieving In-sprint Test Automation is the key to Agile?