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Cucumber vs JUnit: What are the differences?
What is Cucumber? 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.
What is JUnit? A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java. JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
Cucumber and JUnit can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.
Cucumber and JUnit are both open source tools. It seems that JUnit with 7.52K GitHub stars and 2.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Cucumber with 2.53K GitHub stars and 502 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, JUnit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 65 company stacks & 54 developers stacks; compared to Cucumber, which is listed in 58 company stacks and 39 developer stacks.
Pros of Cucumber
- Simple Syntax20
- Simple usage8
- Huge community5
- Nice report3