GHERKINEDITOR

Our project team was formed to deliver a business-critical function with a fixed delivery date. Many of the team members were new to line of business that we were asked to support. Early in the project, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and more specifically Cucumber, was a useful tool for capturing and documenting the expectations of the system. The business team was able to communicate requirements in familiar terms, even if Gherkin was a new syntax. The IT team was able to understand table-driven examples, while learning the business terminology. The two collaborating sides of our project were never completely out of their comfort zones... Having an automated test suite based on Cucumber gives both our IT team and business team the confidence to release our software to our production environment more frequently than other project teams and without long, manual regression test cycles typical of a company of our size. Our project team knows immediately when a software change..

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