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JDave 0.8.0, behavior driven development for Java

URL: jdave.org

At 3:04 PM on May 7, 2007, Joni Freeman wrote:

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JDave is a framework which provides an easy way to specify behavior of your classes. Key concepts are specification , which is a container for behaviors . Behaviors define the behavior of a class and they are always expressed within some context . Context defines the setting where particular behavior applies.

For example, we could specify a Stack by first identifying that it has (at least) three interesting states, an empty stack, a full stack and a stack which is neither empty nor full. We would then continue by specifying the behavior of a Stack when it is in these states. The behavior can then be expressed as:


    Stack specification

        Empty stack

            - is empty

            - is no longer empty after push

            - ...

        Full stack

            - is full

            - complains on push

            - contains all items

            - ...

        Stack which is neither empty nor full

            - adds to the top when pushing new item

            - ...

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