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I can count on zero fingers the number of times I've worked with a non-technical QA person who's written tests, let alone benefitting from cucumber. As the GP says, the rest of the time is just wasted maintaining a pseudo-natural language programming language.

[abracadabra_]

Unfortunately, I'd need a few more fingers. Not too many though which makes that argument for Cucumber fairly moot. I did work somewhere where each team had 2 testers. One to write the cucumber and one to write the glue code for it. It was about as successful as you could imagine.

I'd also say "non-coding" rather than "non-technical". Coding is just one aspect of being "technical".

There is benefit in making the tests easy to read but this is better done in actual code, e.g. the screenplay pattern.