There are two traditional strategies towards approaching the problem of UI testing: record-and-replay tools and end-to-end testing.
The first approach, record-and-replay, leverages the use of tools capable of recording user activity in the UI and saves this into a script file. This script file can be later executed to perform exactly the same UI manipulation as the user performed and to check whether the results are exactly the same. This approach is not very compatible with BDD because of the following reasons:
We cannot test-first our UI. To be able to use the UI and record the user activity, we first need to have most of the code of our application in place. This is not a problem in the waterfall approach, where QA and testing are performed after the codification phase is finished. However, in BDD, we aim to document the product features as automated tests, so we should write the tests before or during the coding.
The resulting test scripts are low-level and totally...