I was recently interviewed for a podcast about my Behaviour Driven Development framework, StoryQ. David Starr from Pluralsight did a great job with the interview – check it out at www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/pluralcast/archive/2010/06/21/pluralcast-18-bdd-in-net-with-storyq.aspx.
David also gave a great presentation on BDD at the 2010 tech ed in New Orleans, and I highly recommend it for anyone wondering how to get started, or even whether they should get started, with BDD: http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/DPR302
Improvements
I think this is a good opportunity to talk about some of the new features in StoryQ. My first post on StoryQ came when we’d just committed it to codeplex, and a lot has changed since then:
- We’ve moved to Mercurial, which means our users can create public forks
- No more ()=> operator. Thanks to FLIT, our fluent interface has evolved to accept plain old delegates, instead of Expression<Action>s.
- Tagging. Any Step can be “tagged”, which makes it easy to find in the output report
- By default, the HTML report generated by StoryQ is JQuery-enriched, which makes it easy to narrow down stories by class hierarchy or tag. I’m particularly proud of this report – it’s a great way to share test results with everybody, especially when published from a continuous integration server.
- A rewritten converter gui, which lets you convert plain text stories into StoryQ code. The new version lets you choose what level of code generation you want (from Story initialisation statement to entire test class), and offers a basic form of intellisense.
Roadmap
- The new fluent interface architecture allows us to support multiple (human) languages, and I’m looking forward to creating fluent interfaces for non-english speakers.
- I think we’ll be able to create a new way of doing BDD in .NET that takes advantage of C# 4.0′s dynamic features
- We still haven’t added xUnit support! Which is lame, because it’s probably going to be really easy…
Please check StoryQ out and let us know if you’ve got any bright ideas for it! And if you’ve never tried BDD, you should definitely look into it. It’s even more fun than TDD!!!
