Selenium and Cucumber are both open-source testing tools, and both are used for functional testing. But there are some differences between them.
Following are some critical differences between Selenium and Cucumber :
* Selenium is a web browser automation tool for web apps, while Cucumber is an automation tool for behavior-driven development that can be used with Selenium (or Appium).
* Selenium is used for automated UI testing, while Cucumber is used for acceptance testing.
* Selenium is preferred by technical teams (SDETs/programmers), while Cucumber is typically preferred by non-technical teams (business stakeholders and testers).
* Selenium can work independently of Cucumber. Cucumber depends on Selenium or Appium for step-definition implementation.
* In Selenium, the script creation is complex, while Cucumber is simpler than Selenium.
