Cucumber Reviews & Product Details

Cucumber is an open-source tool designed to support Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) by enabling teams to write executable specifications in plain language. This approach fosters collaboration among developers, testers, and business stakeholders, ensuring a shared understanding of software requirements and behavior. Key Features and Functionality: - Plain Language Specifications: Utilizes Gherkin syntax to write scenarios in natural language, making them accessible to all team members. - Multi-Language Support: Compatible with various programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and more, allowing integration into diverse development environments. - Automated Testing: Executes written scenarios to verify that the software behaves as expected, providing immediate feedback on the system's functionality. - Living Documentation: Maintains up-to-date documentation that reflects the current state of the system, serving as a reliable reference for the team. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Cucumber bridges the communication gap between technical and non-technical team members by providing a common language for describing software behavior. This alignment reduces misunderstandings, minimizes rework, and accelerates the development process. By integrating automated testing with documentation, Cucumber ensures that software meets business requirements and remains maintainable over time.

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Anurag T.

Automation Test Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2026

"Simple, Readable Gherkin Syntax That Makes BDD Collaboration Easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

What I like best about Cucumber is its simple and readable Gherkin syntax, which allows test scenarios to be written in plain English. This makes it easy for both technical and non-technical team members to understand the test cases and collaborate effectively. It helps bridge the communication gap between developers, testers, and business stakeholders. I also appreciate how easily Cucumber integrates with automation tools like Selenium, making it very useful for implementing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) in real projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

What I dislike about Cucumber is that maintaining feature files can become challenging in large projects with many scenarios. If scenarios are not well organized, feature files can grow very long and difficult to manage. Also, writing step definitions requires discipline to avoid duplicate or overly generic steps, which can make the automation framework harder to maintain over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cucumber solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cucumber helps solve the communication gap between technical and non-technical team members by allowing test scenarios to be written in simple Gherkin language. This makes it easier for developers, testers, and business stakeholders to understand the expected behavior of the application. It also helps us implement Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), ensuring that automation tests are aligned with business requirements. As a result, our team improves collaboration, creates clearer test cases, and maintains better documentation for the application features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arpan K.

Quality Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/27/2025

"Business-Friendly and Versatile, But UI Test Execution Can Be Slow"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Gherkin is very business-friendly, making it easy for product owners to understand. It also works seamlessly with Playwright and Selenium. Additionally, the support for data-driven testing is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

When running UI test suites, I have noticed that the execution times tend to increase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumeet S.

Senior Analyst/ Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2025

"Cucumber review"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Enhanced collaboration and communication

Improved readability and reusability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

Complexity in maintaining and writing gherkin scenarios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harry R.

Quality Assurance Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/16/2024

"Experience with cucumber"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Good coverage for end-to-end functional testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

difficult to implement and also integration with other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dushyant P.

Technology Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/22/2022

"De facto, easy to learn tool for BDD and automation"

4/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Cucumber's gherkin syntax is very similar to normal English, thereby greatly pushing down the learning curve for new users. It also has great integration support on common IDEs like VS Code, IntelliJ, making it very easy to connect the cucumber syntax to the underlying protractor/Javascript/selenium logic. It is easy to set up and highly extensible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

Cucumber has limits on use case when compared to newer solutions like Webdriver, and is often prone to bugs. It also lacks on being used side by side with other automation tools like Webdriver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cucumber solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Cucumber at my workplace to write automation scripts for our application. Its easy to understand syntax ensures that we have kicked off migration from a Test Driven development style to a Behavior Driven development one, wherein the developers themselves write the automation scripts for the code they commit, making it faster to test and speed up deployment pipelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit T.

Product Verification Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/27/2022

"Best tool for BDD implementation in your project"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

I like how easily it gets integrated with Java, junit and rest assured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

Not a dislike , but it can be made more readable for non coders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marly A.

Analista de QA Sênior

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/30/2022

"Facilitate the understanding of the software's behavior"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Translate the specification clearly and objectively into natural language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

Depending on the functionality, it can extend the test case a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ganesh S.

Test Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/24/2022

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"Cucumber Everything for your API"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

It allows test scenarios to be written in the language used by the business.These are called as feature files.I have integrated with Eclipse and very helpful.Its very better choice go with Cucumber. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

As scenarios are written requires bit documentation.It works properly with no technical support also.Should work with more platform and integration and for UI testing it should be used with less complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neky G.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/15/2022

"Best tool for Behavior Driven Testing"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

The Gherkin language and the ease of creating tests as compared to other test automation platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

There are no dislikes about this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cucumber:

If your organization makes JS based web applications and if your goals involve developing a mobile application in the future, just stop and adopt Cucumber for your test automation purposes. The open-source tools will come haunting as your tech stack advances and your product gets bigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cucumber solving and how is that benefiting you?

Behavior Driven test development provides flexibility in creating tests in a way that you can match up with user-centered behaviors. Many of the test cases that appear as a result of UAT, can now be converted to automated tests. This is a quality-focused approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishal L.

IT Analyst QA

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/17/2022

"Cucumber-- Best open source framework"

5/5

What do you like best about Cucumber?

Helps you to implement a framework which is easily readable and feasible for the entire team. Very basic syntax (Given, When, Then )makes this a great to have tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cucumber?

Nothing absolutely nothing i can say about this framework... yes it has slow growth in coming with new features but yes it is must have tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.