Exploring BDD Automation Patterns

This workshop focuses on the automation aspect of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and demonstrates how you can improve your BDD automation solution with design patterns.

Using different design patterns for software development is not new. Developers have been using well-known patterns, like abstract factory or singleton for decades. There are a few known test automation pattern as well, like the “”page object pattern””, but this field is yet to be discovered. Using automation patterns help to make the automation solution more robust, easier to maintain and less costly to implement.

In the workshop we look at a couple of automation patterns we have collected while working on our book “BDD Automation Patterns”. These patterns can be used with BDD automation tools, like Cucumber or SpecFlow, but might be useful for other test automation solutions as well.

To attend the workshop, a basic level of C# or Java knowledge is required, but you will be able to follow the workshop if you only have coding experience in other languages.