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Lettuce
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- Audience
- The tutorial says Lettuce lets people who do not program describe the behavior of a system in plain text.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- CI output
- Lettuce can use Subunit to output test results for continuous-integration workflows.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Command-line use
- Lettuce runs from a shell and can run feature files or selected scenarios.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Cucumber inspiration
- The documentation describes Lettuce as a BDD tool based on Cucumber, which has more features than Lettuce.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Django
- The project README lists Django among the packages used in Lettuce's tests.github.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Django integration
- Lettuce supports Django projects and documents Django-specific hooks and built-in steps.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Grouped steps
- Lettuce supports grouping steps in a class decorated with @steps.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation says the latest stable release can be installed with pip.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Known comparison
- The documentation says Lettuce focuses on common BDD tasks and has fewer features than Cucumber.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies Lettuce as free software under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.github.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Natural-language scenarios
- Developers can describe features in natural language as scenarios and define Python steps that execute them.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Lettuce runs plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests for Python projects using behavior-driven development.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Scenario writing
- Features can be described in natural language as one or more scenarios, with steps that run Python code.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Step discovery
- Lettuce recursively looks for Python files inside the features directory; the files can have any name ending in .py.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Step syntax
- Steps can be defined with the @step decorator, using a sentence pattern or taking the sentence from a function name or docstring.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project documentation directs users to an issue tracker and user and development mailing lists.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Test setup hooks
- Hooks can run before and after features, scenarios, and steps for tasks such as setting up or cleaning test data.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Unstable features
- The documentation warns that step.behave_as and xUnit XML output are unstable and untested.lettuce.readthedocs.io · read 8 Oct 2026
