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Cucumber vs InSpec: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cucumber as "Simple, human collaboration". Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs. On the other hand, InSpec is detailed as "Open-source testing framework for infrastructure". It is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human- and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy requirements.
Cucumber and InSpec can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Cucumber and InSpec are both open source tools. Cucumber with 2.58K GitHub stars and 502 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than InSpec with 1.86K GitHub stars and 521 GitHub forks.
OpenGov, Viadeo, and Ubiqua are some of the popular companies that use Cucumber, whereas InSpec is used by FIDATA, StackStorm, and SubPort.io. Cucumber has a broader approval, being mentioned in 85 company stacks & 189 developers stacks; compared to InSpec, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Cucumber
- Simple Syntax20
- Simple usage8
- Huge community5
- Nice report3