Yi Wen wrote:
I totally agree with you on this. I have a feeling a lot of people kind of use cucumber as a sexy way for doing waterfall.
"Storytests" are very well represented in the Agile development community in general. Cucumber is a (slam-dunk) reinterpretation of Ward Cunningham's FIT concept.
(Naturally, born of Java, FIT had no direct translation to Ruby, and that's probably a good thing!)
It's only waterfall if your product-owner writes or commissions _thousands_ of story tests before doing _any_ of them.
I heavily suspect that the author of a cucumber "feature" can hardly wait to see it pass, and I suspect they will refrain from diverting energy to writing another one. That is the heart of Agile - the feedback loop.
So what's the maximum number of cucumber features that anyone has ever seen on-deck but not yet passing? That's a bad metric, exactly like excess inventory in a warehouse.
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