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Cucumber vs RSpec: What are the differences?

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; RSpec: Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby Making TDD Productive and Fun..

Cucumber and RSpec can be primarily classified as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Cucumber and RSpec are both open source tools. It seems that Cucumber with 2.54K GitHub stars and 501 forks on GitHub has more adoption than RSpec with 2.53K GitHub stars and 202 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Cucumber has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to RSpec, which is listed in 57 company stacks and 27 developer stacks.

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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 RSpec?

    Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby. Making TDD Productive and Fun.

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    What are some alternatives to Cucumber and RSpec?
    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.
    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.
    Git
    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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