Cucumber is a framework or not ?

To answer this question , first of all we should know about the background of cucumber. So, lets get started.

Cucumber is an open-source tool. It allows writing test in a human-readable language. It explains the behaviour of the application using Gherkin language.

It is a way of testing that supports Behaviour Driven Development(BDD).

Cucumber acts as bridge between business stakeholders and technical persons .This is because of the following below points :

• It involves business stakeholders who can easily read the code.

• It focuses to an end-user experience.

• Reusabilitiy of code in the test as simple test script architecture.

• Easy to set up and execute.

• Supports many languages like Java,.Net, Ruby, etc.

• Knowledge of coding is not required to write a test.

Conclusion :

• Cucumber is not a framework. It is a testing tool based on a behaviour-driven framework.

• Cucumber enables you with behaviour driven development(BDD). BDD enables you to write the scenarios in a plain language that you prefer so that it gives more readability to technical as well as non-technical person.

• Cucumber can be integrated with Selenium for testing and can be used for cross-browser web applications testing. Scripts are easy to maintain and can be reused for different platforms and languages. These are the best tools used in DevOps CICD process.

• Combination of Selenium and Cucumber provides you with a lot of advantages like it provides readability of code so that anyone in your team can get an idea of what your code will do & what scenarios you have covered, & reuse the steps easily whenever required.