As automated testing has become more central to the delivery of projects that use iterative processes, many practitioners have realized that automated testing is not just about testing. Rather, acceptance tests are executable specifications of the behavior of the software being developed. This is a significant realization which has spawned a new approach to automated testing, known as behaviordriven development. One of the core ideas of behavior-driven development is that your acceptance criteria should be written in the form of the customer’s expectations of the behavior of the application.
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