Selenium vs Cucumber

Cucumber and Selenium are exciting new technology in the field of software testing. When you learn automation, once in a while in every people's mind this question strikes that what's the difference between selenium and cucumber?

• Selenium is mostly written in JAVA whereas Cucumber is written in RUBY programming language.

• SelenIum is a framework whereas Cucumber is not a framework.

• Selenium is a browser automation testing tool basically used for web automation whereas cucumber is a testing tool based on a behaviour-driven framework and basically used in acceptance testing.

• Selenium scripts are difficult to read for client or management team whereas Cucumber scripts are readable by client or management team.

• Selenium use TestNG feature with which we can create groups and maintain them easily whereas Cucumber allows the use of tag Cucumber feature files or individual tests to group tests.

Conclusion :

• Selenium is a library / tool which you use for automating the manually performed actions on browsers. Currently its the most preferred library for ui automation of browsers.

• Cucumber is something which enables you with behaviour driven development(BDD). BDD is writing the scenarios in the language you like eg., English so that it gives you more readability [Usually we call it as Gherkhin language which uses keywords like Given, When, Then etc.,)

• Combining these two will provide you tons of advantages like providing readability to your code so that anyone in your team say PM, PO, Developer, Tester everyone can get an idea of what your code will do & what are the scenarios you have covered & reuse the steps easily where ever required.