--- title: Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests | daily.dev description: BDD (Behaviour-Driven Design) is often reduced to a testing methodology, but the author argues it should permeate the entire software design process. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/behaviour-driven-design-is-more-than-tests-n7afrserf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests | daily.dev og:description: BDD (Behaviour-Driven Design) is often reduced to a testing methodology, but the author argues it should permeate the entire software design process. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/behaviour-driven-design-is-more-than-tests-n7afrserf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N7aFRSeRf.png og:image:alt: Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests **[Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz](https://daily.dev/sources/event-driven-io)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary BDD (Behaviour-Driven Design) is often reduced to a testing methodology, but the author argues it should permeate the entire software design process. The post critiques how BDD tooling like Cucumber became an excuse for developers to outsource behaviour definition to QA and business analysts, rather than embedding behavioural thinking throughout design, backend, frontend, and tests. The author introduces Ogooreck, a focused C# testing library that expresses behaviour via Given/When/Then patterns without the ceremony of traditional BDD frameworks. Code examples show how it works for both business logic and API integration tests. The core message is that BDD is a design philosophy, not just a testing technique. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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