Cucumber has been a great success for our team. We've trained the BA's how to write cucumber scripts, which in turn has done a lot to train the BA's in how to

Cucumber has been a great success for our team. We've trained the BA's how to write cucumber scripts, which in turn has done a lot to train the BA's in how to think about the stories and features that they are requesting. The dev will sit down with this feature definition and the BA's, and the feature is groomed into a viable and feasible feature that is testable. We strap these to a web automation (we use specflow to watin), and get a fairly significant return on investment. Cucumber is like any tool; if used correctly, it's great, and if it's used as a de facto tool, then you're going to struggle with it.