How does Cucumber compare to Gauge?

[Andrew Pennebaker]

Gauge seems to be an interesting new BDD tool. Any thoughts on it vs Cucumber?

http://getgauge.io/

[Paolo Ambrosio]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Gauge seems to be an interesting new BDD tool. Any thoughts on it vs Cucumber?

http://getgauge.io/

Took a quick look at Gauge since I didn't know it before.

BDD tools work best if a declarative language is used. Gauge's bullet points style and their examples seem to promote an imperative language. From what I saw, Cucumber's Gherkin syntax seems to be a superset of Gauge's language since bullet points are supported by both. I don't see much difference in defining headings instead of Features and Scenarios.

The only advantage I see is consistency in how you create projects from templates and run tests in the various language implementations. I took a look at Cucumber's documentation and if I didn't know what it was I would probably be lost. The main page in cukes.info is a teaser, but when you follow the docs link the first page are the supported platforms. We should definitely work on making it easier for new users to try it and use it properly. I'll try and come up with something and send a PR or discuss it in another thread.

Paolo

[Roman Rodriguez]

Hi,

Same as Paolo, I took a quick look at Gauge.

Looking at step implementations I do not see the powerful of regular expressions, so It seems that step matching is very strict. Using regular expressions you can implement steps with a lot of possibilities.

Do you think that analysts, product owners and so on prefer using markup language against Gherkin?. I personally preffer to use words like Feature, Scenario, Examples against markup. Due to this point I think it is a little more technical than Cucumber.

Regards

El martes, 10 de febrero de 2015, 21:14:57 (UTC-3), Andrew Pennebaker escribió:

Gauge seems to be an interesting new BDD tool. Any thouAsghts on it vs Cucumber?

http://getgauge.io/

[Andrew Pennebaker]

One thing I wish Gauge didn't do is to overload the Markdown format, confusing things. It's like if someone said .docx was just for user stories. In contrast, I like that Cucumber has a very particular format specific to BDD testing, Gherkin .feature files.

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[Mayank Mittal]

Two things i like about gauge is :
1) Use excel as datatable in gauge.It makes it very easy to test json based API.
2) Using datastore is a very good feature.You can save results and use them in next steps.