Gherkin

Gherkin is a programming language created in 2008.

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15Years Old

8kRepos

Executable specifications

Gherkin website
There are at least 7,787 Gherkin repos on GitHub
Gherkin first developed in SmartBear Software
file extensions for Gherkin include feature and story
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 4k users using Gherkin in 5k repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Gherkin
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Gherkin
Read more about Gherkin on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

Feature: Guess the word

 # The first example has two steps
 Scenario: Maker starts a game
   When the Maker starts a game
   Then the Maker waits for a Breaker to join

 # The second example has three steps
 Scenario: Breaker joins a game
   Given the Maker has started a game with the word "silky"
   When the Breaker joins the Maker's game
   Then the Breaker must guess a word with 5 characters

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		# A comment
Line Comments	✓	#	# A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

Gherkin - Programming language

Language features