[html5apps] Learned a lot about BDD today, but?

As you know software without tests is useless therefore I started this morning with a wish to write some tests for my project. I came across a new word which I did not understand: BDD. I knew about TDD but not BDD (. Read these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development

http://inter-sections.net/2007/10/03/the-difference-between-tdd-and-bdd

However, to be honest I still do not completely understand (

Anyway I proceeded forward and best tools for BDD are Node.js modules Mocha and Should:

http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/

(I read the documentation very carefully).

Then moved over to Should:

https://github.com/visionmedia/should.js#readme

At this point I started playing with Mocha, and was not able to run it. After about 3-4 hours I set the path to F:\myproject\node_modules\.bin and started running, then I created directroy test in my myproject directory i.e. F:\myproject\test

and wrote this in my myfirsttest.js file

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//http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/

//http://dailyjs.com/2011/12/08/mocha/
//https://github.com/visionmedia/should.js#readme
//http://www.adomokos.com/2012/01/javascript-testing-with-mocha.html
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9779700/mocha-requires-make-cant-find-a-make-exe-that-works-on-windows

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Development
//http://inter-sections.net/2007/10/03/the-difference-between-tdd-and-bdd

var should = require('should');
var panacloud = require('./../panacloud');

describe('Panacloud Registration', function(){
    before(function(done){
        panacloud.cleanDatabaseAsync().then(function(msg){
            done();
        },
        function(errMsg){
            done();
        });
    });

    describe('#isRegistrationAsync()', function(){
        it('should not be registered', function(done){
            panacloud.isRegisteredAsync("11").then(function(data){
                //should.equal(data.isRegistered, false, "Not registered as it should be");
                data.isRegistered.should.be.false;
                // Tell Mocha the test has finished
                done();
            });
        })
    })
})

And it is working but I still donot understand the theory behind BDD, I understand these tests are very easy to read even for the end user but don't understand the complete theory behind it. Also I am very tired. I think it will come to me in time, or may be you can tell me?

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