The Cucumber team released some days ago a beta of the 0.7.0 version. With this release comes one thing we were waiting for a long time : Gherkin integration.
Gherkin is a new parser for the Gherkin language which features are written in. It’s using Ragel and thus generate fast parsers in pure Ruby, C (MRI extension) and Java.
A thread about the performance this brings was started in the Cukes Google Group for the v0.7.0.beta.2 release.
Here’s what we got when switching from Cucumber v0.6.4 to v0.7.0.beta.2:
(out)162 Features
(out)902 Scenario
(out)12993 Steps
(out)
(out)Cucumber 0.6.4 :
(out) Parsing feature files took 1m44s
(out)
(out)Cucumber v0.7.0.beta.2
(out) Parsing feature files took 0m1sThis means our cucumber startup time dropped from nearly 2 minutes to … instant.
Now, what’s your results ?