BDD in action

1. Waiter to Assistant Cook
aka
QA to
Co-Developer , Co-Product Manager

2. 14 years of Testing Journey
● Manual Tester
● Automation Tester
● Manual Testing Lead
● SDET
● BDD addict and preacher ( at
present )

3. What I did , loved , hated
● Indian Software Industry from my eyes
● Role of QA in it
● Why QA is NOT treated at par with
Developer , Product Manager ?

4. QA Complaints
● Are you QA engineer by choice or
compulsion ?
● Do you like your job ?
● Do you like your salary ?
● Do you want to be in QA whole life ?

5. Questions to QA
● How can you be of more value in your
project ?
● Do you know coding ?
● Do you know automation ?

6. Questions about Automation
● What kind of automation you do ?
● UI , Unit , API ?
● Which one is best in terms of testing
coverage ?

7. Your project life cycle
● What kind of SDLC do you follow ?
● What is difference between Water fall ,
Agile , Scrum etc
● What is TDD , BDD ?

8. Achieving BDD
● How to shift to BDD from existing
SDLC ?
● Challenges
● Changing behavior of Developer and
PM to achieve success in BDD

9. … continue
● Example Mapping
● 3 Amigos Session
● Acceptance Testing – Who & How

10. BDD vs Existing Model
● NON BDD
Coding ( adding bugs ) → testing → prioritization →
Bug fixing and adding new -> repeat cycle
● BDD
Discuss , clarify , agree → automated tests -> Coding
to make tests pass ( lesser Bugs ) → Fix tests →
Coding → repeat

11. Cucumber Tool
● What is it ?
● How is it used along with Selenium ,
Appium , API testing ?
● Contribute , learn , grow

12. …. continue
● Is it Automation Tool ?
● Is it replaces existing automation tools ?
● Does it have steep learning curve ?

13. Demo Project ( Git repo )
● Serenity Framework
● Selenium + Java
● Cucumber

14. … continue
● Scenarios
● Test Cases vs Scenarios
● Tips
● Good practices

15. My Experiences with BDD
● Am I comfortable with BDD now ?
● Challenges being faced ?
● What I can do better ?