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Gherkin vs Robot Framework: What are the differences?

What is Gherkin? Cross-platform parser for the Gherkin language. Cross-platform parser for the Gherkin language, used by Cucumber, SpecFlow and other Cucumber-based tools to parse feature files.

What is Robot Framework? 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.

Gherkin and Robot Framework are primarily classified as "NuGet Packages" and "Testing Frameworks" tools respectively.

Gherkin is an open source tool with 3.21K GitHub stars and 643 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gherkin's open source repository on GitHub.

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      Easy with CI/CD
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      Open Source
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      Simple Usage
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      Easily extendable
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      Vast Scope more than Front End
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      Fast
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      Mobile supports
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      Extensive libraries
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      Supports windows applications
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      Easy for Non-tech personal

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        Nested Loops
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        Devtooling is not there
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        Mostly for python
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        Extensive library support
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      What is Gherkin?

      Cross-platform parser for the Gherkin language, used by Cucumber, SpecFlow and other Cucumber-based tools to parse feature files.

      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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