Practicing BDD with python [closed]

Answer 1

I am probably completely missing the point, but what I retained of the original BDD paper was that BDD was just TDD repackaged to emphasize some best practices.

If my interpretation is correct, you can get a BDD framework just by renaming methods around in any xUnit implementation. So just go ahead and use the standard library's unittest.

EDIT: A quick google turned up a Behaviour module in the Cheese Shop. Further searching for BDD there did not find anything else.

Answer 2

The Pyccuracy project is an effort to provide a domain-specific language for BDD in Python.

Unlike doctest, which works at the API level, it encodes higher-level operations such as loading a web page and submitting a form. I haven't used it but it looks somewhat promising if that is what you're looking for.

Answer 3

I like Pyccuracy a lot. I'm implementing it on a mid sized project these days.

Answer 4

Great post and answers. Just wanted to update to include Freshen in this list as I read pycukes is discontinued. A good post about using BDD and Django with Freshen is here.