BDD is great as a concept but Cucumber/RSpec/Gherkin/Behave/etc. is an absolutely terrible DSL for implementing it: * It's verbose. * It's not type safe. * I

BDD is great as a concept but Cucumber/RSpec/Gherkin/Behave/etc. is an absolutely terrible DSL for implementing it: * It's verbose. * It's not type safe. * It desperately needs some kind of inheritance - most user stories branch from other user stories (e.g. put product in shopping cart->purchase product). The only way people who use it can deal with it is by concealing critical details in code or by writing massively repetitive stories. * What other language has a parser that routinely asks you to write regexes to get things to parse? None of these things are fixable and the creators have largely reacted to the complaints with gaslighting: "you're just using it wrong". It can be used effectively if you align the stars correctly but usually not. The one thing it does get right is not being turing complete - there's clear value in not using code to describe scenarios.