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Friday 8 June 2012

BDD engines comparison (Cucumber, Freshen, JBehave,NBehave,SpecFlow, Behat)

Introduction

Cucumber is not the only engine supporting natural language instructions. It's just one implementation of natural language instructions interpreter. The actual language to write tests with is called Gherkin. And it has different implementations adopted to different programming language. Thus we have:
This list isn't complete as there can be many other similar engines which are simply less popular. All of them have some common set of supported features but there're some restrictions and abilities specific to the actual engine. So, the aim of this post is to collect useful features for each listed above engine and present it in some comparable form. Key features to be mentioned are: