Open-source testing tools, Selenium and Cucumber are both used for functional testing. However, there are some distinctions between them.
Here are some key distinctions between Selenium and Cucumber:
- Cucumber is a behavior-driven development automation tool that may be used with Selenium. Selenium is a web browser automation tool for web projects (or Appium).
- Cucumber is used for acceptance testing, while Selenium is used for automated UI testing.
- Technical teams (SDETs/programmers) favour Selenium, while non-technical teams often choose Cucumber (business stakeholders and testers).
- Cucumber isn't required for Selenium to work. Cucumber's step-definition implementation is based on Selenium or Appium.
- The script creation with Selenium is complicated, whereas Cucumber is straightforward.