Improving’s Rod Coffin was published yesterday in JavaWorld.com. JavaWorld.com is the leading independent source for Java™ technology programmers and enterprise managers who require more information about Java programming language and related technologies.

In this article, entitled, “Behavior Driven Development with easyb”, Rod explains the concepts of BBD and discusses the difference between test-driven development (TTD) and behavior- driven (BDD) development methods. In addition, he takes his readers through an example in behavior-driven development with easyb – a Groovy-based framework that employs a rich DSL, understandable by both developers and domain experts.

Rod is a principle consultant at Improving Enterprises. He has over 10 years of professional software development experience across a wide variety of industries, technologies and roles. He has coached and mentored several teams on agile software development and is equally passionate about the organizational and technical sides of effective software development. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences and has written many articles on a range of software development topics, including agility, enterprise software development, and semantics.