Avoid using Cucumber for Automation

From DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails and best-selling book author:

Cucumber makes no sense to me unless you have clients reading the tests. Why would you build a test-specific parser for English?

- DHH's Tweet in 2011

From Aslak Hellesoy, the creator of Cucumber:

If all you need is a testing tool for driving a mouse and a keyboard, don't use Cucumber. There are other tools that are designed to do this with far less abstraction and typing overhead than Cucumber.

- http://aslakhellesoy.com/post/11055981222/the-training-wheels-came-off

Cucumber is a facilitator to help organisations to start having conversations and collaboratively share knowledge. ..., As a test tool it sucks.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194242