Software Testing Unleashed · 2025-09-25 · 34 min
Why Examples Matter: Rethinking Requirements In this episode, I talk with Gáspár Nagy about behavior driven development. We look at why a simple example can beat a specification. You do not learn soccer from a rulebook. You learn by playing and watching plays. BDD uses the same trick to build understanding early. We discuss example mapping, writing readable scenarios, and turning them into executable specs with Cucumber, SpecFlow, and Reqnroll. Done well, this guides vertical slices, shows progress, and stops the mini waterfall at the end of a sprint. "Learning by example is a human thing. And somehow, we have forgotten that with software development." - Gáspár Nagy Gáspár Nagy , the creator of SpecFlow & Reqnroll , bringing over 20 years of experience as a coach, trainer and test automation expert nowadays through his company, called Spec Solutions . He is the co-author of the books "Discovery: Explore behaviour using examples" and "Formulation: Document examples with Given/When/Then" and also leads SpecSync, aiding teams in test traceability with Azure DevOps and Jira. He is active in the open-source community through leading the Reqnroll project.
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