Preface

Companies often have huge issues with trust—the customer doesn’t trust the supplier, the business doesn’t trust the developers, the developers don’t trust the testers, and the testers don’t trust anyone. Cucumber gives the business, developers, and testers a way to collaborate and specify, in plain English, how the system should work. We’ve seen how these conversations over a simple Cucumber specification can begin the process of recuperation.

Out of these conversations grow a set of specifications that all stakeholders could understand. Cucumber enables the direct automation of the specification, which means that anyone can see, at a glance, what functionality has been implemented and what hasn’t. It also gives the development team ...

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