Living Documentation
Cucumber feature files share the benefit of traditional specification documents in that they can be written and read by business stakeholders, but they have a distinct advantage in that a computer can understand them too. In practice, this means that your documentation, rather than being something that’s written once and then gradually goes out of date, becomes a living thing that reflects the true state of the project.
Source of Truth
For many teams, the Cucumber feature files become the definitive source of truth as to what the system does. Having a single place to go for this information saves a lot of time that is often wasted trying to keep requirements documents, tests, and code all in sync. Having a single source ...
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