Success Factors and Challenges in Behavior Driven Development

Abstract

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a software development process that combines the general techniques and principles of Test Driven Development (TDD) with ideas from Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Object Oriented (OO) analysis. It describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the deliverable, tested working software. Today, BDD has evolved into an established agile practice. However, compared to other agile methodology frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban, BDD is a relatively new. Thus, available resources explaining BDD is still limited and the BDD approach is still under development. Based on this observation, this literature review aims to provide the key of success as well as the challenge that lies on the implementation process of BDD in IT Project. We identified 3 success factors and 5 challenges. The success factors are focusing in product value, having a thorough system behavior definition, and using the right BDD supporting tools. Meanwhile, the most challenging part are the difficulties in writing BDD scenario and automating the test case to maintain the system quality.