> BDD and the culture that sprang up around it (at least in the Ruby community) was such a disappointment after having done TDD for a few years previous. It's l

> BDD and the culture that sprang up around it (at least in the Ruby community) was such a disappointment after having done TDD for a few years previous. It's like every known anti-pattern was adopted as a core deliverable and the entire point of the exercise (IMO, solving the "blank page" problem in building systems; Design) was forgotten entirely. Could you elaborate? Speaking for myself, I thought that the main useful thing to come out of BDD was working outside-in and the given/when/then convention. But I certainly didn't get it on my first pass. Looked at Cucumber, soldiered mightily, gave up in disgust.