behavior-driven development
nounA way of making software where people first write down in plain words how the program should act, then build it to act that way.
The team used behavior-driven development so everyone could agree on what the app should do before writing any code.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A teamwork habit where developers, testers, and business people write shared examples of desired behavior.
Their behavior-driven development meetings helped the whole team speak the same language.
3. A testing style that turns plain-language examples into automatic checks.
With behavior-driven development, each example sentence becomes a test that runs on every change.
4. An approach that focuses on what users should see rather than on internal code details.
Behavior-driven development kept the team focused on user-visible results instead of technical internals.