Seth Cohn: 'Behat' at Drupal Nights by BioRAFT

Seth Cohn: "Behat: Human-Readable Automated Testing"

Behat is a tool that makes behavior driven development (BDD) possible. With BDD, you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your Drupal site. These stories can then be auto-tested against your website, whether in the midst of development, or on a live site. And yes, it’s as cool as it sounds!

Behat, if embraced by enough Drupal folks, has the potential to vastly improve the way we build and test Drupal websites. Testing language can be developed by module maintainers, and allow nearly codefree testing to be developed by everyone, as needed, per site.

Behat IS NOT unit testing nor a specification testing tool. Behat is a Scenario-oriented BDD framework with functional testing capabilities as part of a communication process between stake-holders and developers. Think Agile User Stories meets Selenium.

Presenter:
Seth Cohn

D.O.:
sethcohn

Seth Cohn is currently Technical Lead at BioRAFT, and spends a great deal of his time focusing on system engineering and best practices. He's presented at DrupalCon, and a number of DrupalCamps around the world. He's been a Drupaller for about 9 years, and tech-editted 'Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers'. A former elected official in New Hampshire, he authored and passed the nation's first state level law for encouraging governmental Open Source and Open Data.

Sponsored by BioRAFT

[MattGoodwin]

Brilliantly spoken Seth. Thank you very much for driving this.