I really don't get why testers are expected to mess about with Cucumber - its for the BAs to use to talk business with the users. As a freelance tester of 25 years I have worked with one large organisation where the BAs didn't use Cucumber at all, but they expected the testers to write the bloody things out then automate them using Selenium. Nuts! The closest I got to s reasonable argument was "it means the business can see how important a defect it...." Whaaaaat? Just comment the code if they want to know what the test does. On top of all that companies seem to have decided that automation is everything, forget proper testing - that's why so many systems are failing left right and centre, nobody tests, they just get programmers to write checks.
I really don't get why testers are expected to mess about with Cucumber - its for the BAs to use to talk business with the users. As a freelance tester of 25 years I have worked with one large organisation where the BAs didn't use Cucumber at all, but they expected the testers to write the bloody things out then automate them using Selenium. Nuts!
The closest I got to s reasonable argument was "it means the business can see how important a defect it...." Whaaaaat? Just comment the code if they want to know what the test does. On top of all that companies seem to have decided that automation is everything, forget proper testing - that's why so many systems are failing left right and centre, nobody tests, they just get programmers to write checks.