Is it possible to use DDD and BDD together?

Question

I like the middle-out development that is achieved with DDD. Development is driven by domain, the most solid part of application. We don\'t depend on infrastructure, persistence

Answer 1

I was lucky enough to get to do one of Gojko Adzic's 'Specification by Example' workshops in June this year.

Gojko made reference to Eric Evans and DDD throughout the class.

The lightbulb moment for me was when the exercise we were doing lead us to refactor the domain model 'for deeper knowledge' That is, as we gained a deeper insight into the domain, we refactored the model and with it the BDD tests to reflect that insight.

The example in the class was a Blackjack game where we were initially modelling a hand of cards as an integer value based on the sum total of the cards. As we came to a deeper understanding of how the Blackjack game worked we introduced the concept of a hand being a 'Blackjack' hand, so moved away from using an integer value to represent the hand to it being either an integer value or a 'Blackjack' hand.

In my practice I seek to evolve the Domain Model and its ubiquitous language. I then use that ubiquitous language in my BDD tests.