The only time I have found cucumber testing useful is when I was working in a "corporate" scenario where we had tedious UAT tests written for humans to run manu

The only time I have found cucumber testing useful is when I was working in a "corporate" scenario where we had tedious UAT tests written for humans to run manually. I convinced them to use plain-text cucumber syntax files. We had to use detailed imperative, not declarative, tests with the default steps which all cucumber gurus hate, and in fact were relegated to a "cucumber-training-wheels" repo. But in this scenario they were the only option. Old school Enterprise test thinking) then I just automated them myself and made them part of the CI build. The result, 100% pass on the first UAT run (minus a few % from UAT testers reading tests differently to how everyone else had been reading them up to that point), everyone happy, we look good and client hired contract testers finishing early and saving money. Without cucumber we would have been in excel spreadsheet "UAT Test file" hell. I am not sure I would use them in any other scenario though.