Selenium is a widely-used and very useful tool for automated web testing. This article is a very short primer designed to get you up and running Selenium Tests in Groovy in your Maven projects.

Most people would agree that testing your code is a good thing. And there is little doubt that modern Test-Driven development practices, when applied well, can produce high quality software that is reliable, flexible and easy to maintain. However, one of the big problems that often happens when developers adopt Test-Driven Development is that they concentrate so much on the tests that they lose focus on what they are actually meant to be testing. This results in writing large numbers of superficial and inefficient tests, without testing the underlying user requirements in any real depth.

Behaviour-Driven Development, or BDD, is considered by many to be a natural extention of Test-Driven Development (or TDD). Test-Driven Development is about designing software with the tests in mind.This tends to make the detailed design of your classes cleaner, more modular and more flexible. In practice, it involves writing your tests at the same time as your code - before, simultaneously or slightly after. As a bonus, if you do it well, you get a high degree of test coverage and a good set of regression tests into the bargin.

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Any Test-Driven Development practitioner will tell you, Test-Driven Development is a design strategy, not a unit-testing technique. Writing unit tests are a means, not an end. The goal is to write better quality, more reliable, and more accurate code.