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So, how's the job search going? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 94 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Surprisingly, yes, I do. Cucumber is a testing tool for ruby applications for a whole lot of programming languages.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yeah, we use gherkin, which is a variety of cucumber. Programmers name things weird. Java is a coffee bean and C is just a letter; they've just gotten big enough that people recognize them now.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    C is just a letter

    It's the successor to B, which was derived from BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language")

    Incidentally, C++ is a reference to how integer values are iterated in C. And then C# is a pithy take on C++ wherein you've stacked two rows of plus signs on top of each other.

    There's often some rhyme or reason to these names.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Have always personally seen Gherkin being used with Cucumber, as I believe that they're two parts of the same whole, but I'm happy to be corrected if wrong :).

    My understanding is that Gherkin is the syntax used to write the scenarios / acceptance criteria, whilst Cucumber is the tool that interprets said scenarios and executes them as automated tests.

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