Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test-driven_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test-driven_develop... I much prefer this appro

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test-driven_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_test-driven_develop... I much prefer this approach. The looser coupling gives you more freedom to undo your initial architectural mistakes. You also can't effectively do unit test driven development on big balls of mud. I dislike Gherkin-based languages though. The syntax design was not particularly well thought through.