Benefits of using Gherkin

The benefits of using Gherkin include:

• Requirements can be written as tests. This is especially useful when a business user is writing the requirements for UAT and the language in which it is written doubles up to become a test case.
• Encouraging closer collaboration of IT with business to provide quality output, since business goals are always at the forefront of delivering the projects.
• Duplication of effort in writing the requirements and again rewriting the test cases covering the requirements specified is eliminated.
• Ease of understanding for any layman / business user who wants to understand what functionality is being tested.
• Traceability of the test cases becomes easier, since the requirements and the test cases are the same.
• The specialty of working with Gherkin is that the tests can be written in more than 30 languages, apart from English.