Has anyone used Spec by example for specifying projects writing APIs ?

[Tani]

Has anyone used Spec by example for specifying projects writing public APIs ?

Any dos or donts?

This is a .net project and we are planning to use SpecFlow with nunit .

Thanks

Tani

[Rob Park]

Although I wouldn't say there was anything pure about the couple projects I've done this sort of thing, I would definitely recommend you do that for your API project.

Specifying examples first. 

Three amigos.

Failing test. 

Code the API.

Passing test.

Three amigos.

Repeat.

I've used SpecFlow a little, should work great.

The only don't I can think of is don't put some sort of UI in front of your API just to test it. Instead, enjoy the nice, fast API test suite. 

//rob

Tani

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[Lancer Kind]

These public APIs are for external developers (ie your product is a library)?