aid: gherkin
name: Gherkin
description: >-
  Gherkin is a business-readable, domain-specific language created to support
  Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). It lets teams describe software behavior
  in plain text using a structured Given-When-Then syntax that is human-readable
  and machine-parsable. Gherkin is the language used by Cucumber and many other
  BDD tools to define executable specifications and acceptance tests.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-28'
position: Consumer
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gherkin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - BDD
  - Gherkin
  - Testing
  - Acceptance Testing
  - Cucumber
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/gherkin-domain-security.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/
  - type: Website
    url: https://cucumber.io/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin
  - url: https://cucumber.io/blog/rss.xml
    type: Blog
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com