A Comparative Analysis of Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in CI/CD Pipelines: Enhancing Software Quality and Delivery Speed
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Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD PipelinesAbstract
This paper will compare Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development in the context of continuous integrations and deliveries to enhance the software delivery quality and accelerate the delivery rate. TDD promotes a testing culture marked by creating tests before the actual code by assigning the developers the responsibility of delivering good code. On the other hand, BDD aims to facilitate cross-functional interactions between business and technical teams to express system behavior using natural language scenarios to meet business expectations. As applied to CI/CD pipelines, the delta between the two approaches offers various benefits, such as discovering defects ahead of time, encouraging information sharing, and constantly confirming product efficiency. However, such problems as high initial costs, issues with inter-functional collaboration, and frequent modifications still need to be solved. Finally, the future of TDD and BDD in DevOps is explored, and the opportunity for automation and some challenges that best practices may solve are focused on. Finally, the uses of TDD and BDD are presented as the beginning of a journey toward developing and achieving a culture of quality and agility.
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