name: Cucumber Vocabulary
description: >-
  Controlled terms used across Cucumber Behavior Driven Development tooling
  including Gherkin syntax, the Cucumber Messages protocol, step definitions,
  hooks, and result reporting.
terms:
  - term: BDD
    definition: Behavior Driven Development - collaborative practice using executable specifications written in plain language.
  - term: Gherkin
    definition: Cucumber's domain-specific language for writing executable specifications using Given/When/Then.
  - term: Feature
    definition: A single Gherkin file describing a feature of the system under test.
  - term: Scenario
    definition: A concrete example of a feature's behavior, expressed as a sequence of steps.
  - term: ScenarioOutline
    definition: A parameterized scenario expanded with rows from an Examples table.
  - term: Step
    definition: A single Given/When/Then/And/But line in a Gherkin scenario.
  - term: StepDefinition
    definition: Code that matches a Gherkin step pattern and executes the step against the system.
  - term: CucumberExpression
    definition: Cucumber's variable-aware step pattern grammar, an alternative to regular expressions.
  - term: Hook
    definition: Code that runs before/after scenarios or steps to set up or tear down state.
  - term: Tag
    definition: A label like @smoke applied to features or scenarios for selection and configuration.
  - term: Pickle
    definition: An executable representation of a scenario after Gherkin parsing and outline expansion.
  - term: TestRun
    definition: A single execution of zero or more pickles by a Cucumber implementation.
  - term: TestCase
    definition: One pickle's execution within a test run.
  - term: TestStepResult
    definition: Outcome of a step including status (PASSED, FAILED, SKIPPED, PENDING, UNDEFINED, AMBIGUOUS).
  - term: Attachment
    definition: Binary or text artifact (e.g. screenshot, log) attached to a step or test case.
  - term: Formatter
    definition: A pluggable consumer of Cucumber Messages that produces reports (HTML, JSON, JUnit, pretty).