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I am working in selenium with page object pattern. I know the basic concepts of cucumber. Its a bdd tool and bdd is for customer verification acceptance test. Everyone can understand the gherkin syntax. There is no need of any technical.

My question is.. Why should I go for cucumber tool ?

As a tester have knowledge about selenium is enough for web application right? What is the main importance using cucumber tool? My seniors told me that "make good knowledge in a particular tool". "Don't waste time to study other tool" .

Anybody please clear my doubt..

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The importance of any Behavior-driven development framework, methodology or tool is to communicate. Cucumber is primarily a tool to communicate requirements between the business people and the developer. Which can also function as automatable tests.

Cucumbers Gherkin could also be used to create a DSL or predefined steps to let non technical testers also write automated tests without writing any code.

Adding an extra layer as BDD is not worth it if it is just a way developers write tests. Then it's just overhead. But it can be a very strong way to communicate acceptance criteria (requirements) with stakeholders and safeguard them automatically.

The LeSS framework describes "Specification by Example" workshops where developers and business people come up with examples. Implementing these examples (or scenarios) with Gherkin after the workshops could be a structured way to document the new designed requirements.

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Why should I go for cucumber tool ? As a tester have knowledge about selenium is enough for web application

  • As you know it doesn't required technical background or knowledge

  • If its requirement or high in priority then one can suggest to use Cucumber

My seniors told me that "make good knowledge in a particular tool". "Don't waste time to study other tool"

  • Its totally depends on what and how you will get an opportunity.

  • We can plan but current requirement & company interest we need to consider which matters the most

  • For learning no one can bind you. Its always open opportunity for you. Can not predict when it will be in use for you

Importance of Cucumber?

  • You can figure it out simply by googling it
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  • is it useful for a simple project or large ecommerce project ? is it possible to convert the language to selenium code ?
    – user21268
    Dec 6, 2016 at 7:38
  • yes you can. and Its dependent on convenience instead of project size friend.
    – Narendra Chandratre
    Dec 6, 2016 at 12:50