Sebastian Rose

Seb Rose has been a consultant, coach, designer, analyst and developer for over 40 years. During his career, he has worked for companies ranging from large to small, including IBM and Amazon. He's now an independent software consultant, promoting effective ways of working to the software development and testing community.

books by Sebastian Rose

Effective Behavior-Driven Development
  • MEAP began October 2025
  • Last updated May 2026
  • Publication in Early 2027 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633435254
  • 425 pages (estimated)
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering
resources: Source code Book forum Source code on Github

Effective Behavior-Driven Development is a guide for BDD as it works today. It captures the latest approaches, automation patterns, and tools of modern BDD. It’s divided into three parts, each covering one of the key practices of BDD—Discovery, Formulation, and Automation. First, Discovery lays out collaboration tools for creating shared understanding, through structured conversations focused on business rules and concrete examples. Then, Formulation shows how to capture those examples in clear, business-friendly language that describes the desired system behavior. Finally, in Automation developers will find the book’s comprehensive pattern catalog for creating maintainable living documentation.