More Information about Behave

Tutorials

For new users, that want to read, understand and explore the concepts in Gherkin and behave (after reading the behave documentation):

• “Behave by Example” (on github)

The following small tutorials provide an introduction how you use behave in a specific testing domain:

• Phillip Johnson, Getting Started with Behavior Testing in Python with Behave
• Bdd with Python, Behave and WebDriver
• Wayne Witzel III, Using Behave with Pyramid, 2014-01-10.

Warning

A word of caution if you are new to “behaviour-driven development” (BDD). In general, you want to avoid “user interface” (UI) details in your scenarios, because they describe how something is implemented (in this case the UI itself), like:

• press this button
• then enter this text into the text field
• …

In BDD (or testing in general), you should describe what should be done (meaning the intention). This will make your scenarios much more robust and stable because you can change the underlying implementation of:

• the “system under test” (SUT) or
• the test automation layer, that interacts with the SUT.

without changing the scenarios.

Books

Behave is covered in the following books:

[TDD-Python] Harry Percival, Test-Driven Web Development with Python, O’Reilly, June 2014, Appendix E: BDD (covers behave)

Presentation Videos

• Benno Rice: Making Your Application Behave (30min), 2012-08-12, PyCon Australia.
• Selenium: First behave python tuorial with selenium (8min), 2015-01-28, http://www.seleniumframework.com/python-basic/first-behave-gherkin/
• Jessica Ingrasselino: Automation with Python and Behave (67min), 2015-12-16
• Selenium Python Webdriver Tutorial - Behave (BDD) (14min), 2016-01-21

Tool-oriented Tutorials

JetBrains PyCharm:

• Blog: In-Depth Screencast on Testing (2016-04-11; video offset=2:10min)
• Docs: BDD Testing Framework Support in PyCharm 2016.1

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See also

• google:python-behave examples
• google:python-behave tutorials
• google:python-behave videos