FSDNUG Meeting with Raymond Lewallen on Behavior Driven Design

Last night kicked out the Fort Smith .NET User Group’s first meeting. It went great! I would guess that we had at least 20 or 30 people show up.

Raymond Lewallen spoke to us about Behavior Driven Design (BDD). I thought I’d share links to a few of the resources that he brought up last night.

• Dan North – He came up with the BDD idea
  • Also check out this blog post for more detail regarding BDD
• specunit-net – A set of extensions to strive for more behavioral tests (specifications) based on SpecUnit for Ruby
• NUnit – The testing framework Raymond used
  • MbUnit – I actually use MbUnit for most of my tests, but NUnit is fine.
• Castle Windsor – The IoC container that Raymond mentioned.
  • Here are a few other IoC/DI containers available for .NET development
    • StructureMap – From Jeremy Miller
    • Unity – The Microsoft offering
• Rhino.Mocks – A mocking framework by Oren Eini.
• Automocking Container – An IoC container that takes advantage of Rhino.Mocks for mocking out dependencies.
• General BDD resources
  • Behavior-Driven.org
  • The Wikipedia entry on BDD

All in all, a great presentation. Considering the breadth of information that BDD covers, I think Raymond did a great job. I hope that FSDNUG can continue to bring topics like this to the area.