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Boodhoo BDD is a set of libraries that abstracts Rhino Mocks and MBUnit to give you an easy way to write BDD Specifications (a readable form of unit tests).

I’ve been using JP Boodhoo’s BDD helper libraries on a few projects and I’ve seen my tests become documentation because they’re more readable. I’ve been using it to set up our development team with application modules in a design by contract methodology. Which means that tests are in place first to provide a high level contract of the inputs and outputs of the class.

I’ll be covering this again in a grok talk tonight at the LDNUG but consider this a thorough transcript.

Definitions

1. BDD – Behaviour Driven Development
2. AAA – Arrange-Act-Assert syntax testing

Here’s all the components you need to start developing using Boodhoo BDD.

jpboodhoo.bdd

helper libraries which give you a fluent interface to rhino mocks and mbunit so your interaction with these frameworks are abstracted away and readable.

you’ll need the following references to take full advantage of all the extension methods and reporting functionality of bdd doc.

jpboodhoo.bdd.dll
jpboodhoo.commons.core.infrastructure.dll
bdddoc.core.dll

checkout the latest version from http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/jpboodhoo_bdd with a subversion client like tortoisesvn

or you can download a build from here

here’s all the using statements you’ll need

using bdddoc.core;
using jpboodhoo.bdd;
using jpboodhoo.bdd.concerns;
using jpboodhoo.bdd.contexts;
using jpboodhoo.bdd.core;

first we need to setup all the concerns for our movie repository, this is where we would setup and dependancies and override the MovieRepository constructor if is need to inject anything.

public abstract class concern_for_movie_repository : observations_for_a_sut_with_a_contract
    {
    }

and the specification looks like this

    [Concern(typeof (MovieRepository))]
    public class when_all_movies_are_asked_for : concern_for_movie_repository
    {
        static IEnumerable results;

        static concern c = () => {};	

        static because b = () => results = sut.All();                                

        [Observation]
        public void should_find_a_movie()
        {
            results.Count().should_not_be_equal_to(0);
        }
    }

the main points are

1. Concern is a MBUnit TestFixture
2. Observation is a MBUnit Test
3. sut is a MovieRepository which is created in observations_for_a_sut_with_a_contract based on the Generic type.
4. concern,because and any fields need to be static
5. a concern in concern_for_movie_repository will run before the concern in when_all_movies_are_asked_for

Here’s some more thorough examples to get you started

bdddoc.console.exe tests.dll TestAttribute SpecReport.html test.report.xml

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