What are the advantages of using Cucumber?

Some of the advantages of using Cucumber are listed below −

• Cucumber is an open source tool and does not require licensing.

• Cucumber can be easily configured with IDEs like Eclipse.

• Cucumber bridges the understanding and communication gaps among developers, testers, business analysts, customers and product owners.

• Cucumber enables the participation of business stakeholders who do not have technical knowhow.

• Cucumber gives plain text representation which enables easy understanding for non-technical members in the team.

• Cucumber is easy to maintain and is scalable.

• Cucumber increases the reusability of important steps.

• Cucumber promotes teamwork since each individual in the team can contribute.

• Cucumber uses the Gherkin tool which is simple and easy to use.

• Cucumber is a behavior driven tool which supports multiple programming languages like Groovy, Java and so on.

• Cucumber supports Behavior Driven development and can be used to test only web based applications.