Differentiate between Robot Framework and Cucumber.

Robot Framework: Acceptance Testing, Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATTD), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are all supported by the Robot Platform open-source automation framework. It employs a keyword-driven testing technology method, and testing libraries written in Python or Java can be used to expand its capabilities.

Cucumber: Cucumber is a behaviour-driven development (BDD) testing tool (BDD). It provides a method for writing tests that anyone, regardless of technical knowledge, can comprehend. Before developers write their programs, users (business analysts, product owners) submit scenarios or acceptance tests that describe the system's behaviour from the customer's perspective for assessment and approval by the product owners. The Ruby programming language is used in the Cucumber framework.

The following table lists the differences between Robot Framework and Cucumber :

Robot Framework Cucumber 
It is based on the Python programming language. It is based on the Ruby programming language.
The robot is a Python acceptance/functional testing framework. The robot is a simple plain text-based automated test framework that may be readily extended with Python or Java frameworks. It can run on both the. net-based IronPython and the Java-based Jython. Cucumber is a behaviour-driven development automation tool. The specifications are written in plain English, making them understandable to all parties involved. Cucumber Framework can also be used with languages other than Ruby, such as Java, JavaScript, and Scala.
The robot framework allows you to test code on a client, such as a web browser. The robot has a large library and can be readily coupled with Selenium to automate the testing of front-end components in the browser. Cucumber and Selenium can be used to test the front-end, such as the GUI; they work well together to test your front-end.
In Robot Framework, group fixtures can be made by integrating them with the unit tests.

Group Fixtures may be made in two steps using the cucumber extension Aruba:

  • Create a fixtures-directory. 
  • Create fixture files in this directory.
The Robot Framework has Apache License 2.0. The Cucumber Framework has an MIT License.
The Robot Framework can be used to generate a test suite.
 
Cucumber allows you to arrange tests using tag Cucumber feature files or individual tests. Then, during test execution, you may specify the tag (grouped) tests to execute using a Cucumber tagged expression.