Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) from business perspective

Describing test cases from business perspective using Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) requires actions from a user's point of view. So those actions contain several interactions likes mouse-clicks or text-inputs. You can find a sample test suite at qftest-7.1.2/demo/keywords/behaviordriven_business/BehaviorDrivenTesting-Business.qft. The respective test-plan can be found at qftest-7.1.2/demo/keywords/behaviordriven_business/createvehicle-business.xlsx. Please take care to copy the demo folder to a project-related folder first and modify them there.

The "Create vehicle" test case looks like this if it's described in the BDT manner from a business perspective:

  1. Given application is ready to enter vehicle data
  2. When vehicle created with <model> and <price>
  3. Then <model> with <formatted price> appears in table

This approach uses the keywords Given, When, And and Then at the beginning of any sentence like the technical one. The provided test suite therefore contains the packages Given, When_And and Then.

Figure 29.7:  Test suite Behavior-driven testing from business perspective

In order to prevent annoying typos a Server-script read test steps and fix typos formats any steps to lower case and tries to replace multiple blanks by one. This script is called directly before the procedure call of $(teststep).

In order to run the test case on multiple test data the sample was extended.