This entirely depends on how you write your step code. If you treat it like production code and aggressively refactor it, so you have minimal reuse of steps, lo

This entirely depends on how you write your step code. If you treat it like production code and aggressively refactor it, so you have minimal reuse of steps, lots of one or two-line steps, calling clean well factored plain Ruby code that actually does the work, you'll be a lot better off. This does take time to create, but in my experience having acceptance tests written in a form which is readable to anyone is very useful. I've even gone so far as to create a gem to display the features as the 'help' section of a website: https://github.com/chrismdp/rack-usermanual https://github.com/chrismdp/rack-usermanual