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Cucumber Web Bridge (CWB) is a framework for automatic testing of web interfacesCurrently it supports 2 type of web interfaces: your classic HTML based website and REST based webservices.

It's a text-driven framework, meaning you define the tests you want to execute in a simple plain text format instead of in a scripting or programming language directly. This is where Cucumber comes in.  According to their website “Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text”.  It provides a plain text DSL called Gherkin to do this and has libraries in many different programming languages that help you convert the plain text scenarios into runnable test code.

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