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Cucumber vs Robot Framework: 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, Robot Framework is detailed as "A test automation framework for acceptance testing and ATDD". It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

Cucumber and Robot Framework can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Cucumber is an open source tool with 2.54K GitHub stars and 501 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cucumber's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Cucumber
Pros of Robot Framework
  • 20
    Simple Syntax
  • 8
    Simple usage
  • 5
    Huge community
  • 3
    Nice report
  • 22
    Easy with CI/CD
  • 21
    Open Source
  • 20
    Simple Usage
  • 14
    Easily extendable
  • 12
    Vast Scope more than Front End
  • 12
    Fast
  • 4
    Extensive libraries
  • 4
    Supports windows applications
  • 4
    Mobile supports
  • 3
    Easy for Non-tech personal

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Cons of Cucumber
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    • 8
      Nested Loops
    • 1
      Devtooling is not there
    • 1
      Mostly for python
    • 0
      Extensive library support
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      Mobile supports

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    What is Cucumber?

    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 Robot Framework?

    It is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

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    What are some alternatives to Cucumber and Robot Framework?
    Selenium
    Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
    RSpec
    Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. Making TDD Productive and Fun.
    TestNG
    It is a testing framework designed to simplify a broad range of testing needs, it covers all categories of tests: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc.Run your tests in arbitrarily big thread pools with various policies available (all methods in their own thread, one thread per test class, etc.
    JUnit
    JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
    Celery
    Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
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