CucumberEdit

Cucumber is an acceptance testing framework written in Ruby.

Features

  • Pretty output
  • Nice integration with Capybara

Criticisms

  • Extremely complex implementation with an enormous dependency hierarchy
  • Constantly changing API and implementation details mean that, historically, updates usually require additional maintenance to fix breakage
  • High overhead required to maintain parallel plaintext "feature" files and supporting Ruby "step definition" files
  • Feature file syntax (called "Gherkin") is marketed as "business readable", but this is of little value because it is neither "business writable", nor any more readable than a well-written Ruby DSL would be

Alternatives

  • Steak is an extremely minimal acceptance testing framework for Rails applications built on top of RSpec

See also