Robot Framework – test automation in Python

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19 pointsmkj5 comments

At the end of the day, I still end up using `unittests` for most of the work I do for my dayjob. Does not adding good documentation to the unit tests that you write achieve the same thing as BDD? From what I've understood so far, BDD merely adds a layer of explanation on top of unit tests.

I think all these frameworks are basically different ways of handling the separation of concerns between the specification and the code to test it: cucumber, concordion, robot etc.

The essential difficulty I think is in presenting the documentation in a form that is readable / writeable by the wider audience of non-developers.

This BDD driven tests, are imho not adding much value for developers. I"d rather call into the test myself with some code (python unittest)

True. The value here is for less technical stakeholders. IMHO BDD bridges the gap between the underlying technical implementation and the business requirements, providing automated QA and documentation.

Or if you have bigger software that requires testers.

I work as software tester and my job is to come up with scenarios, find edge cases and write automated tests continuous integration. My main tools are Jenkins and Robot Framework.

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