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What is the difference between Gherkin and Cucumber software?

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What is Cucumber? It is an open-source software tool that makes the strategic use of the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for the purpose of writing automated acceptance tests. Test cases in Cucumber are written using the Gherkin language. Originally, cucumber was written in Ruby, but, eventually, it has been able to support various popular programming languages such as .Net, Python, JavaScript and Java.   The importance of Behavior Driven Development (BDD): BDD is an agile software development model that has been specifically designed to leverage collaboration between testers, developers and business managers. It is a part of data-driven development and basically focuses on rethinking the approach to acceptance testing and unit testing.     The principles of BDD are as follows: ·        A test is defined for the unit ·        Then the tests are made to fail ·     ...