Alternative to Cucumber?

Question

When doing BDD, it seems that Cucumber is the default tool to specify behaviors, however the Cucumber website and articles look a bit out of date and not very active.

What are the alternatives ?

Diplococcus

Answer 1

• Cucumber is active, functionally, stable and very easy and productive to use.
• Serenity BDD is a bundle of Cucumber with WebDriver, but it is clunky and badly over-engineered.
• JBehave is an alternative, it is more complex and a much steeper learning curve than Cucumber.

Wondering

Answer 2

A very nice library with advanced tooling for Eclipse: Jnario

• http://jnario.org

Exuberance

The tools of this library look really nice. Unfortunately, it seems to be very Java centric ?! – Diplococcus

Yes, but you can use it with any language, that has decent Java binding like Ruby (jruby), Python (Jython), ... – Exuberance

I was more looking for something that supports Objective-C, Java, C++, Javascript and C# ;) – Diplococcus

This is a quite wide range. In frameworks like cucumber you have to specify/implement steps in a selected programming language. I can't imagine, how you want to get all those languages supported simultaneously. – Exuberance

Not necessarily support simultaneously - however if you have a unity3d project for Android and iOS (including native code) you need to have support for all of the languages except JS. As soon as you add HTML5 views or a website that somehow interacts with the apps to the project you also have JavaScript. – Diplococcus

Ok, I agree. This is very complex not only from testing view point. – Exuberance

Yes, it is complex, but "normal" for a cross-platform mobile unity app/game. ;) – Diplococcus

Answer 3

One that I have found in the past year since I posted the question:

• Robot Framework

Diplococcus

Answer 4

For Java developers I really like JGiven. It is a bit more 'low level' than Cucumber (In theory Gherkin files could be written by business people..) as the tests are written in Java code. But I never found this to be a problem as I found usually the devs end up writing the Gherkin anyway. Very easy to use and it also generates nice html reports. the website has good docs and youtube conference videos.

Shillelagh