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Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an Agile approach that mixes requirement gathering, documentation and acceptance testing. You write human-readable sentences describing the features of your application and how they should work. Then you implement this behavior using a tool that produces automated acceptance tests to verify that the feature is implemented correctly. Open source .NET BDD tools like SpecFlow are used to store the requirements as live documentation and to perform functional or acceptance tests.
Have you ever felt like you are performing Testing in the dark, i.e., verifying only the UI and not knowing why it works that way? In that case, you are performing black-box Testing. Since QA cannot understand the code in this approach, crucial defects may slip through and remain undetected.
Software testing typically starts once the code is fully developed or in the later stages of development. With this approach, when QA’s role begins at that time, most of the development is already done, and identifying defects at this timeframe means rework for the developers, which is quite costly in terms of time and money. It also impacts project production delivery.
In a flash, CrowdStrike went from cybersecurity titan to cautionary tale. A single flawed software update triggered what is likely a $5 billion disaster. As billions vanished from their stock price overnight, this incident underscores a crucial lesson for every organization pushing the limits of rapid software releases-no speed is worth the cost of cutting corners in testing and quality control.
The Apache JMeter is an open source load testing tool developed by the Apache Foundation that can be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources. It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server and also some functional testing. JMeter has an open architecture that can be extended with plugins.
