[a_imho]

OTOH never rule out how KISS is the enemy of billable hours and don't underestimate CDD's ability (consultability driven development) to come up with solutions to non problems.

YMMV, the BDD implementations I've seen so far did not convince me of its value to put it mildly.

[bramblerose]

I never understood the value of Gherkin/Cucumber style testing until I worked with a QA engineer. The engineer started writing the tests (in Cucumber format) as a way to write __manual__ tests: they allow you to write 'do this, then that, verify this' in a structured manner. Automating this was a secondary goal: once you have (relatively) structured manual tests, it's nice if you can automate them, while still retaining the possibility to run them manually. This is actually important, and they would typically be end-to-end UI tests, which can be quite fragile when completely automated. Having them in a human-friendly format allows you to have a manual fallback if e.g. a changed identifier blocks you from running the automated test.

[lotyrin]

Yep. The value of Given When Then ends, not begins, once you have implemented the steps with some automation.