Lettuce
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The facts
Each one read from Lettuce's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The tutorial says Lettuce lets people who do not program describe the behavior of a system in plain text.checked 8 Oct 2026
- CI output
- Lettuce can use Subunit to output test results for continuous-integration workflows.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Command-line use
- Lettuce runs from a shell and can run feature files or selected scenarios.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Cucumber inspiration
- The documentation describes Lettuce as a BDD tool based on Cucumber, which has more features than Lettuce.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Django
- The project README lists Django among the packages used in Lettuce's tests.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Django integration
- Lettuce supports Django projects and documents Django-specific hooks and built-in steps.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Grouped steps
- Lettuce supports grouping steps in a class decorated with @steps.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The tutorial instructs users to install Lettuce from a terminal with pip after installing Python.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Known comparison
- The documentation says Lettuce focuses on common BDD tasks and has fewer features than Cucumber.checked 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies Lettuce as free software under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Lettuce runs plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests for Python projects using behavior-driven development.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scenario writing
- Features can be described in natural language as one or more scenarios, with steps that run Python code.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Step discovery
- Lettuce recursively looks for Python files inside the features directory; the files can have any name ending in .py.checked 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.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project documentation directs users to an issue tracker and user and development mailing lists.checked 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.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Unstable features
- The documentation warns that step.behave_as and xUnit XML output are unstable and untested.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2010checked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Natural-language scenarios
- Developers can describe features in natural language as scenarios and define Python steps that execute them.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Windows support
- The project README notes that a contributor made Lettuce work on Windows and points to an installation guide.checked 8 Oct 2026
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