Why Cucumber?

    - BDD validates the use cases with customer perspective.

    - readable by everyone

    - code reusability

    - reduce code redundancy

    - its seamless integration with Jira

    - its seamless integration with Jenkins

    - its seamless integration with JUnit

Cucumber is a tool for running automated acceptance tests 

written in a behavior driven development style. 

One of its wonderful main features is the ability to execute 

plain text functional description (written in language named Gherkin) 

as automated tests.