Within the Agile community, Cucumber has become a widely-used framework for test automation. It can be a great help when used for its primary purpose: namely, helping to build a ubiquitous language for your business and sharing reliable documentation easily understood by everyone from your Product Owner to your customer. That’s why you'll often hear users say that Cucumber is essentially a collaborative tool: to really get the most out of it, everyone on the team should share the responsibility for creating system documentation.