I am new to cucumber and Gherkin. In my new role, we have inherited many very complicated and long running UI automation tests. Updating these feature files is extremely time consuming because in order to test a small change late in the file, you have to wait 10-15 minutes (or longer!) for the test to reach that point.

I would like to write (or steal) a tool that allows me to launch my application under test and then paste chunks of gherkin script to the tool and run it against the already-running application. That way, I can do all of the setup/preconditions once and then try different combinations of gherkin at the point in the application flow where I need to change the test.

So, I’m wondering if there is an API or library that allows me to pass Gherkin text to cucumber and have it run my glue code as normal.

Thanks!

I’ve searched online and did not find anything so far.