Here is a collection of resources that have been helpful in the development of Bathtub. Check them out if you’d like to learn more.

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Links

Introducing BDD

Dan North’s foundational article on the genesis of BDD.

Cucumber

This popular BDD tool has many useful guides on its web site.

• Behaviour-Driven Development

  An authoritative guide to the entire BDD flow, from discovery to formulation to automation.

• Gherkin Syntax

  Learn the entire Gherkin language.

• Cucumber Docs

  Bathtub is not Cucumber, but understanding how Cucumber works will help you understand Bathtub better.

• Cucumber Guides

  More Cucumber tips and tricks.

• Installation

  Try Cucumber and its kin for other programming languages.

• cucumber/gherkin: A parser and compiler for the Gherkin language

  Github repo for Gherkin parsers supported by Cucumber. Bathtub implements the same abstract syntax tree (AST) in SystemVerilog.

• Cucumber Blog

  Covers wide ranging topics including BDD best practices and Gherkin dos and don’ts.

AgileSoC

A seminal blog by Neil Johnson and Bryan Morris about Agile approaches to IC development and verification.

SVUnit

The ground-breaking test-driven development (TDD) unit testing framework for SystemVerilog.

BDD Addict Newsletter

Survey what’s going on in the world of BDD.

Automation Panda

This blog by software test automation influencer Andrew Knight goes deep into BDD.

Behavior-driven development

Wikipedia. ‘Nuff said.

Books

• Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design, by Cyrille Martraire
• BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the Whole Software Lifecycle, by John Smart
• Discovery: Explore Behaviour Using Examples, by Gáspár Nagy and Seb Rose
• Formulation: Document Examples with Given/When/Then, by Seb Rose and Gáspár Nagy
• The Cucumber Book, by Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesøy, and Steve Tooke