# Intro to Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber - http://bit.ly/ZX6TX

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intro-to-behaviour-driven-development-bdd-with-cucumber-http-bit-ly-zx6tx/170889>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 24, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intro-to-behaviour-driven-development-bdd-with-cucumber-http-bit-ly-zx6tx/170889 "2009-06-24T01:24:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbinsider](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sbinsider](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sbinsider)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intro-to-behaviour-driven-development-bdd-with-cucumber-http-bit-ly-zx6tx/170889/1 "2009-06-24T01:24:34Z")

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Cucumber is a framework for writing and executing high-level  
descriptions of your software’s functionality. Cucumber plays a  
central role in a development approach called Behaviour Driven  
Development (BDD). BDD in its grandest sense is about communication  
and viewing your software as a system with behaviour. BDD tools such  
as RSpec and Cucumber enable you to describe the behavior of your  
software in a very understandable way. Read the full post at –  
[http://bit.ly/ZX6TX](http://bit.ly/ZX6TX)

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**Author:** ![sbinsider](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sbinsider](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sbinsider)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intro-to-behaviour-driven-development-bdd-with-cucumber-http-bit-ly-zx6tx/170889/2 "2009-06-24T03:46:38Z")

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Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the content… but not sure why blog posts  
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Robby

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM, sbinsider[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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