It seems like behavior-driven development (or BDD) and its supporting tools are gaining stronger momentum in Java world than ever. Cucumber, as one of the most popular frameworks used to support and automate BDD, seems like the go-to framework to power user acceptance tests (or UATs) without considering the implications of adoption of such a tool. Since using Cucumber was the requirement of one of the projects I have been working on I would like to share some observations I made and describe some of the pitfalls of such a decision. Continue reading “Pitfalls of Cucumber adoption” →