# Working in BDD

### Case Study:

Can anyone offer any advice/helpful resources for working in BDD, specifically in regard to implementing this approach via automation? My company is looking at using Cucumber for a new set of tests and I've not worked in BDD or with Cucumber before.

I have a sneaking suspicion my colleagues haven't thought much about the implication of BDD as a culture, rather hoping to add a cool new tool to the tests. ![:slightly\_smiling\_face:](https://a.slack-edge.com/production-standard-emoji-assets/10.2/apple-medium/1f642@2x.png)

#### Recommendation 1:

Please only do this if you're going to do it right (product writes gherkin,  the developer writes tests first, then code). If you just use cucumber to write/manage your test scripts, you're just having a lot of semantic overhead for not a lot of gain.

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#### Reference:

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