Rick Barry used the “Granny Shot” to propel himself to seventh on the all-time list for free-throw shooting percentage, but when Shaquille O’Neal was asked to adopt Barry’s strategy as a way to lift his woeful performance at the free throw line, he famously rejected the notion.

“I’d rather shoot 0% than shoot underhand,” Shaq was reported to have said. “I’m too cool for that.”

Sometimes I feel like people say the same thing about Gherkin syntax and by extension behavior-driven-development (BDD).


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Jeremy Stewart

Sports writer turned software developer. Backyard football champion. Python user. Griller.

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