bdd

Last week we published a blog post on the new pytest fixture support in PyCharm 2018.2. This feature was a big part of the 2018.2 work and proved to be a hit. But it wasn’t the only notable pytest work: 2018.2 also delivered support for behavior testing with pytest-bdd, a project that provides behavior testing with pytest as the test framework. Our What’s New in 2018.2 video gave a quick glimpse of this support. Let’s rewrite the tutorial from last week, showing the pytest-bdd support instead of simply working with fixtures. Behavior-driven-development (BDD) support is a part of PyCharm Profes

BDD? Why should I care? Back in the day, I used to write terrible code. I’m probably not the only one who started out writing terrible PHP scripts in high school that just got the job done. For me, the moment that I started to write better code was the moment that I discovered unit testing. Testing forced me to properly organize my code, and keep classes simple enough that testing them in isolation would be possible. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) testing has the potential to do the same at a program level rather than individual classes. A common problem when making software is that differe