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Gherkin

A plain-text language with a simple structure
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What is Gherkin?

It is plain-text language with a simple structure. It is designed to be easy to learn by non-programmers, yet structured enough to allow concise description of test scenarios and examples to illustrate business rules in most real-world domains.
Gherkin is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

Who uses Gherkin?

Companies
155 companies reportedly use Gherkin in their tech stacks, including Vox Media, Modanisa.com, and Aircall.

Developers
93 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Gherkin.

Gherkin Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Gherkin?
JavaScript
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Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
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