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In [[software engineering]], '''behavior-driven development''' ('''BDD''') is a software development process that gels well with [[agile software development]] process that encourages collaboration among developers, quality assurance experts, and customer representatives in a software project.<ref name="IntroToBDD_DanNorth">{{cite web |url=http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/ |title=Introducing BDD |last1=North |first1=Dan |date=March 2006 |publisher=Dan North |access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref name="BDD_Def_BehaviourDriven">{{cite web |url=http://behaviour-driven.org/ |title=Behaviour-Driven Development |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901151029/http://behaviourdriven.org/ |archive-date=1 September 2015 |access-date=12 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="IntroBDD">{{cite web |url=https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/934-introduction-to-behaviour-driven-development |title=Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development |last=Keogh |first=Liz |date=2009-09-07 |work=SkillsMatter |access-date=1 May 2019}}</ref> It encourages teams to use conversation and concrete examples to formalize a shared understanding of how the application should behave.<ref name="BDD in action">{{cite book |title=BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the Whole Software Lifecycle |author=John Ferguson Smart |publisher=Manning Publications |date=2014 |isbn= 9781617291654}}</ref> It emerged from [[test-driven development]] (TDD).<ref name="IntroToBDD_DanNorth"/><ref name="BDD_Def_BehaviourDriven"/><ref name="BDD_JW">{{cite journal |last1=Haring |first1=Ronald |date=February 2011 |title=Behavior Driven development: Beter dan Test Driven Development |editor-last = de Ruiter | editor-first = Robert |journal=Java Magazine |issue=1 |pages=14–17 |publisher=Veen Magazines |issn=1571-6236|language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Solis|first1=Carlos|last2=Wang|first2=Xiaofeng|title=2011 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications |chapter=A Study of the Characteristics of Behaviour Driven Development |journal=Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2011 37th EUROMICRO Conference on|pages=383–387|doi=10.1109/SEAA.2011.76|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4577-1027-8|hdl=10344/1256|s2cid=3392536 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>{{Vague|date=May 2015}}<ref name="BDD_CodeMagazine">{{cite web |url=http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0805061&page=1 |title=Behavior-Driven Development |last=Bellware |first=Scott |date=June 2008 |work=Code Magazine |access-date=1 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712114206/http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0805061&page=1 |archive-date=12 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Behavior-driven development combines the general techniques and principles of TDD with ideas from [[___domain-driven design]] and [[object-oriented analysis and design]] to provide software development and management teams with shared tools and a shared process to collaborate on software development.<ref name="BDD_Def_BehaviourDriven"/><ref name="BDD_CodeMagazine" />

Although BDD is principally an idea about how software development should be managed by both business interests and technical insight, the practice of BDD does assume the use of specialized software tools to support the development process.<ref name="BDD_JW"/> Although these tools are often developed specifically for use in BDD projects, they can be seen as specialized forms of the tooling that supports test-driven development. The tools serve to add automation to the [[Domain-driven design#Building blocks|ubiquitous language]] that is a central theme of BDD.